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Part 4 The Technical Services and General Staff
Page 69 Replace the paragraph
"The following units were Landwehr Batteries………….Horse Battery". With
"The following units were raised in 1813 to support Landwehr brigades: 20th to 23rd, 25th to 27th 6pdr Foot Batteries and the 12th 6pdr Horse Artillery Battery. The officers and men were regulars and reservists and wore regulation artillery uniforms, not landwehr uniforms." (Ref 1).
Page 69 Add after "……traditionally painted light blue" with "……traditionally painted light blue with black metal parts."
Page 69 Add before (b) The Uniforms of the Artillery
"In 1815, the batteries of the Russo-German Legion (RGL), Berg and von Lutzow Freikorp were taken into the line as the 18th, 19th, 20th and 14th horse artillery batteries. The RGL and von Lutzow Freikorps foot batteries were disbanded in 1814.
It should also be noted that a large variety of British, Russian and captured French equipment was used. Some units had for example French guns with British caissons, British tubes on Prussian carriages or British guns with Prussian howitzers. It is not known if the equipment was repainted in blue or kept in the original national colour.
In 1813, the following units used French guns:
6 pounder foot batteries 4th Guard, 5th to the 10th and 12th to the 19th.
6 pounder horse battery. 20th (in 1815, former Berg artillery)
12 pounder foot batteries 4th, 5th and 7th (and the 20th in 1815)
In 1813, the following units used British guns (typically 6x6 pounder and 2x5 1/2 inch howitzer)
6 pounder foot batteries 20th, 24th-27th, 30th-33rd
6 pounder horse batteries 11th, 14th-17th
9 pounder foot battery. RGL foot battery (These may have been iron 6 pounders. Ref 3).
In 1813, the following units used Russian guns (6 pounder and 10 pounder unicorns):
6 pounder horse batteries 1st and 2nd RGL Horse batteries (in 1815 the 18th and 19th Horse batteries) (All from ref 2 and 4)."
Page 73 Add
"In addition to the regulation uniforms, both the former von Lutzow Freikorps battery continued to wear a black shako, litewka and trousers and the Russo-German Legion Russian uniforms in the Waterloo campaign (see part 5 for details).
Britain supplied uniforms consisting of a blue tunic with a red collar and cuffs with grey trousers. This was mostly worn with a Prussian shako. The batteries with French and British equipment are thought to have used these (ref 2).
An entire British horse battery was supplied including uniforms. Sources vary as to which battery this was; probably either the 13th or the 15th or, more unlikely, the 18th. The 18th would be surprising 'as this was formerly an RGL battery. Some sources say a British RHA jacket was worn with the lace removed and others a regulation kollet. The British Tarleton helmet was worn until they were removed after an inspection by the King of Prussia." (Refs 4 and 6).
Pages covering Engineers to Medical not reviewed as these do not usually appear in wargames.
No changes to section (g) on generals and staff uniforms.
References
1: Prussian Landwehr Artillery TMP link
2: Napoleonic Artillery Dawson, Dawson and Summerfield
3: Russo-German Legion Artillery Questions TMP link
4: Prussian Artillery: foreign-made guns in 1815? TMP link
5: The Appearance of the Prussian Army during the Wars of Liberation. Despeche Year 2 No 5, link
6: Prussian Horse Artillery in the Campaign of 1815 Part 2 link
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