Using the DBN system and based on Sott Bowden's work "Armies at WATERLOO", here is what the three armies of this battle will have respectively in terms of artillery units.
The Armée du Nord :
80 pieces below with the grand battery , all the rest being with the divisions or brigades to which they are assigned, apart from a Line horse company from the Imperial Guard Corps attachée au VI Army Corps.
From I Army Corps :
6 th Foot Artillery Regt., 20th company(Division Quiot)
6 th Foot Artillery Regt., 10th company(Division Donzelot)
6 th Foot Artillery Regt., 19th company(Division Marcognet)
6 th Foot Artillery Regt., 11th company*(Corps Artillery Reserve)
From II Army Corps :
2 nd Foot Artillery Regt., 7th company*(Corps Artillery Reserve)
From VI Army Corps :
8 th Foot Artillery Regt., 4th company*(Corps Artillery Reserve)
From the Imperial Guard :
Old Guard Foot Art.Regt., 1st company*
Old Guard Foot Art.Regt., 2nd company*
Old Guard Foot Art.Regt., 3rd company*
Old Guard Foot Art.Regt., 4 th company*
Initial composition of the grand battery totalled 80 pieces of ordnance.
* Indicates 12 – pounder artillery companies
The 6th Foot Artillery Regt., 10 th company, and the 6th Foot Artillery Regt., 19 th company were overrun and put out of commission during the charge of the Union Brigade.
The grand battery was thereafter reinforced by one company of horse artillery from Milhaud's IV Reserve Cavalry Corps (which one?
The 5th company of the 1st Horse Artillery Regiment or the 4th company of the 3rd Horse Artillery Regiment?)and by the four companies of the Old Guard Horse.
These 116 pieces of artillery give us in terms of DBN 6 unit of 18 pieces:
1 x FA (6th Foot Artillery Regt., 20th -10th and 19th companies)
1 x FA (6th Foot Artillery Regt., 11th company* – 2nd Foot Artillery Regt., 7th company* and 8th Foot Artillery Regt., 4th company*)
2 x FA Elite (Old Guard Foot Art. Regt., 1st -2 nd- 3rd and 4 th companies)
1 x HA Elite (Old Guard Horse Art.Regt., 1st -2 nd- 3rd and 4 th companies)
1 x HA (The company of horse artillery from Milhaud's IV Reserve Cavalry Corps and the line horse company from the Imperial Guard Corps attached to the VI Army Corps.)
In addition to the 116 pieces above, as the French cavalry was not accompanied by its divisional artillery in its charges, we can add the following:
I st Horse Artillery Regt., 2nd company (Jacquinot Cavalry Division)
4th Horse Artillery Regt., 2nd company (Piré Cavalry Division)
2nd Horse Artillery Regt., 4th company (Domon Cavalry Division)
I st Horse Artillery Regt., 3rd company (Subervie Cavalry Division)
2nd Horse Artillery Regt., 3rd Company (Lhéritier Cavalry Division)
2nd Horse Artillery Regt., 2nd company (Roussel d'Hurbal Cavalry Division)
1st Horse Artillery Regt., 5 th company (Wathier Cavalry Division)
Which gives us in terms of DBN 2 additional artillery units.
1 x HA (The I st Horse Artillery Regt., 2nd company (Jacquinot Cavalry Division), the 4 th Horse Artillery Regt., the 2nd company (Piré Cavalry Division), the 2 nd Horse Artillery Regt., 4 th company (Domon Cavalry Division) and the I st Horse Artillery Regt., 3rd company (Subervie Cavalry Division))
1 x HA (The 2nd Horse Artillery Regt., 3rd company (Lhéritier Cavalry Division), the 2nd Horse Artillery Regt., 2nd company (Roussel d'Hurbal Cavalry Division) and the I st Horse Artillery Regt., 5th company (Wathier Cavalry Division)).
* Indicates 12–pounder artillery companies
The Army of the Lower Rhine :
All the artillery of the Prussian army corps was combined into a single administrative corps of artillery park.
The commander of the artillery of each corps would then assign specific batteries for duty with certain maneuvrer elements.For example , if one infantry brigade was to defend a important sector, the corps artillery chief might assign as many as three batteries to the brigade.On the other hand, if a signifiant concentration of artillery was needed somewhere along the corps front , the artillery chief might retain most of the corps artillery batteries in the artillery reserve of the corps for deployment and operation under his direct supervision.
Thus on June 18, at Waterloo using the DBN system, the artillery of the Army of the Lower Rhine will only be represented by 5 batteries – or 40 pieces of artillery – all in the reserve of the IV Army Corps.
These 40 pieces of artillery give us in terms of DBN 2 unit of 18 pieces:
1 x HA (6-pdr.Foot Battery # 11 and 6-pdr. Horse Battery #11)
1 x FA ( 12- pdr.Foot Batteries # 3, 5 and 13)
The Army of the Netherlands :
This army had a maximum of only 67 pieces (plus rockets) neither "embrigadées" or "endivisionnées".
From the British Reserve Artillery :
Lt.Colonel Sir Hew D.Ross's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ( 9 pdrs)
Major Georges Beane's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ( 6 pdrs)
Horse Artillery Battery – Captain von Heinemann( 6 pdrs)
Foot Artillery Battery – Major von Moll( 6 pdrs)
From the Royal Horse Artillery of the Cavalry Corps :
Major Robert Bull's Troop,Royal Horse Artillery (Heavy Howitzers)
Lt. Colonel James Webber Smith's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ( 6 pdrs)
Lt.Colonel Sir Robert Gardiner,K.C.B.,Troop,Royal Horse Artillery ( 6 pdrs)
Captain Edward C.Whinyates's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ( 6 pdrs)
Captain Alexander C. Mercer's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ( 9 pdrs)
Major William Norman Ramsay's Troop,Royal Horse Artillery ( 9 pdrs)
Dutch -Belgian Attached Horse Artillery :
One – half Horse Artillery Battery – Captain A.A. Petter ( 6 pdrs)
One – half Horse Artillery Battery – Captain A.R.A. Gey van Pittius ( 6 pdrs)
These 67 pieces of artillery give us in terms of DBN, 3 units of 18 pieces:
3 x HA ( British Reserve Artillery + Royal Horse Artillery of the Cavalry Corps + the Dutch – Belgian Attached Horse Artillery).
« Endivisionnée » artillery of The Army of the North:
IMPERIAL GUARD:
The Division of Grenadiers – Twelve 6 pounder guns and four 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
The Division of Chasseurs – Twelve 6 pounder guns and four 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
Young Guard Division – Twelve 6 pounder guns and four 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
Imperial Guard Light Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
Imperial Guard Heavy Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
I ARMY CORP:
1st Infantry Division – Detached artillery.
2nd Infantry Division – Detached artillery.
3rd Infantry Division – Detached artillery.
4th Infantry Division – Six 6 pounder guns and two 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
I st Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
II ARMY CORPS:
5th Infantry Division – Six 6 pounder guns and two 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
6th Infantry Division – Six 6 pounder guns and two 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
9th Infantry Division – Six 6 pounder guns and two 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
2nd Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
III ARMY CORPS:
3rd Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
VI ARMY CORPS:
19th Infantry Division – Six 6 pounder guns and two 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
20th Infantry Division – Six 6 pounder guns and two 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
I RESERVE CAVALRY CORPS:
5th Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
III RESERVE CAVALRY CORPS:
11th Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
12th Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
IV RESERVE CAVALRY CORPS:
13th Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
14th Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.
« Embrigadées » artillery of the Army of the Lower Rhine :
I ARMY CORPS:
1st Infantry Brigade – Twelve 6 pounder guns and four 7 – pounder howitzers.
1st Cavalry Brigade – Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
II ARMY CORPS:
5th Infantry Brigade – Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
7th Infantry Brigade – His artillery was not present at Waterloo.
8th Infantry Brigade – His artillery lost all his guns at Ligny.
2nd Cavalry Brigade – Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
IV ARMY CORPS:
13th Infantry Brigade – Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
14th Infantry Brigade – Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
15th Infantry Brigade – Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
16th Infantry Brigade- Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
1st Cavalry Brigade – Six 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.
2nd Cavalry Brigade – Four 6 pounder guns and two 7 – pounder howitzers.*
3rd Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
This brigade only had 6 pieces present at Waterloo as two guns were detached on June 17 withLt .colonel von Ledebur and part of the 10th Hussars; this detachement did not rejoin in time for Waterloo.
« Endivisionnée » artillery of the Army of the Netherlands :
I ARMY CORPS:
1st Infantry Division -Ten 9 pounder guns and two heavy 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
3rd Infantry Division – Ten 9 pounder guns and two heavy 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
2nd Dutch-Belgian Infantry Division – Eight 6 pounder guns and two 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
3rd Dutch-Belgian Infantry Division – Twelve 6 pounder guns and four 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
II ARMY CORPS:
2 nd Infantry Division -Ten 9 pounder guns and two heavy 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
4 th Infantry Division – Five 9 pounder guns and one heavy 5 -1/2 inch howitzer.
ARMY RESERVE :
5 th Infantry Division – Five 9 pounder guns, five 6 pounder guns and two heavy 5 -1/2 inch howitzers.
6 th Infantry Division – Five 9 pounder guns and one heavy 5 -1/2 inch howitzer.
Brunswick Contingent – Detached artillery.
CAVALRY CORPS :
1 st Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
2 nd Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
3 rd Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
4 th Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
5 th Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
6 th Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
7 th Cavalry Brigade – No artillery.
Dutch-Belgian Cavalry Division – Detached artillery.