"French artillery at Yorktown. Colors?" Topic
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 John the OFM  | 27 Jul 2021 9:53 a.m. PST |
What color is the carriage?
Is the tube iron painted black, or bronze? This is different from the usual question about American gun carriages. For them the answer is "Yes".
But the French brought theirs from France, with none having been captured and then captured again. Also no need to build and paint carriages from scratch. |
| Frederick | 27 Jul 2021 11:03 a.m. PST |
Pretty sure the carriages were a greyish-blue, although as I understand it there was a fair bit of variability in French artillery until they settled on olive green |
| Brechtel198 | 27 Jul 2021 11:08 a.m. PST |
French artillery at Yorktown came from two places. Rochambeau's came from France with his expeditionary force. Those gun carriages and artillery vehicles were greyish-blue/light blue and the gun tubes for both siege and field artillery were bronze. They were not painted black. The other artillery came from the West Indies and may have been painted red, the older color from the old Valliere System. The gun tubes were also bronze. The French only painted any gun tubes black if they were iron. That included naval artillery and any iron pieces that were used in fortress or garrison artillery. The French had no iron field or siege artillery of either artillery system-Valliere or Gribeauval. The French would have artillery officers with any artillery contingent to repair gun carriages and artillery vehicles. |
| DisasterWargamer | 27 Jul 2021 11:17 a.m. PST |
A video and some photos from the NPS at Yorktown link link About halfway down this page is artist rendition of artillery park at Yorktown link As suggested in the last link and video – the heavier guns off ships – I kept with ships carriages – for the lighter guns I stayed close to Yorktown national park examples – though have yet to field a full artillery park worth of them |
| John the OFM | 27 Jul 2021 11:19 a.m. PST |
Good.
Thanks to all of you.
I'm assuming that the 24pdr siege guns came with Rochambeau. |
| Brechtel198 | 27 Jul 2021 12:11 p.m. PST |
I'm assuming that the 24pdr siege guns came with Rochambeau. Either that or they came north with St Simon aboard ship. |
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