"Où sont les fusils?" Topic
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| Bernard1809 | 02 Jan 2024 2:42 a.m. PST |
Bonjour à tous. On voit toujours sur les dessins les artilleurs à pied français avec leur fusil et leur havresac lorsqu'ils sont en marche.
Je me posais la question, que font-ils de leur fusil (et de leur havresac) lorsqu'ils mettent en œuvre leur pièce d'artillerie?
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| 4th Cuirassier | 02 Jan 2024 3:39 a.m. PST |
@ Bernard On les aurait déposés ou empilés quelque part derrière la ligne des bouches de feu.
They would be stacked somewhere behind the gun line. |
| Oliver Schmidt | 02 Jan 2024 3:44 a.m. PST |
I would say they continue to carry them slung accross their backs ? YouTube link |
| 4th Cuirassier | 02 Jan 2024 4:00 a.m. PST |
You don't see many contemporary paintings of gunners working guns wearing their backpacks and muskets. It would exhaust them faster and save no time when displacing because they could simply be scooped up before moving off. |
| von Winterfeldt | 02 Jan 2024 5:13 a.m. PST |
as shown in the first print, the left hand image – a classic artist error of bad secondary sources, in such way it is not possible to sling the artillery musket there the sling is much too short, also it would constrict the chest immensely. Rousselot, in this case a good secondary source gives a good hint.
otherwise they may stack arms when stationary because manning a gun was tough labour. They even might discard their coats, as Girod de l'Ain describes this in his memoires, so it would depend on the tactical situation. |
| Legionarius | 02 Jan 2024 4:20 p.m. PST |
Everything in tactics and in combat is "situation dependent." |
| Bernard1809 | 02 Jan 2024 9:47 p.m. PST |
@Legionarius
Tu as entièrement raison! Mais il y a obligatoirement un règlement général sur ce que doit faire l'artilleur à pied de son fusil et de son havresac avant de mettre en batterie sa pièce d'artillerie. Merci à tous pour vos réponses. |
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