24-pounders

The conspirators were desperate to provoke some bloody event to polarize opinion, and the French would have regarded a brace and a half of 24-pounders as seed corn...

Rebels & Redcoats Jim Horning 2006

The conspirators were desperate to provoke some bloody event to polarize opinion, and the French would have regarded a brace and a half of 24-pounders as seed corn...

Archive 2006-08-01 Jim Horning 2006

Jones learned that two men-of-war of thirty-two guns—18- and 24-pounders, real smashers—were under construction in France.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Jones learned that two men-of-war of thirty-two guns—18- and 24-pounders, real smashers—were under construction in France.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Although the cannon attached to the army were not impressive in number—consisting of two 24-pounders, two 6-pounders, a couple of mortars and a handful of smaller field guns, scantily provided with ammunition and equipment five batteries in all—this was not an encouraging development.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

However, four days later the Allied garrison conducted a sortie in strength from Fort Malbousquet and virtually destroyed the Battery of the Convention on the extreme left of the line, spiking the seven 24-pounders it contained.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Although the cannon attached to the army were not impressive in number—consisting of two 24-pounders, two 6-pounders, a couple of mortars and a handful of smaller field guns, scantily provided with ammunition and equipment five batteries in all—this was not an encouraging development.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Buonaparte was continually extemporizing solutions to such problems: hearing, for instance, that Lieutenant Colonel Gassendi of the artillery was near Grenoble on November 4, he requested him to make a detour by way of Saint-Etienne to collect some 10,000 spare musket barrels.12 By dint of superhuman exertions, in the end he was able to collect almost one hundred guns, including a fair proportion of 24-pounders and long-range mortars.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

However, four days later the Allied garrison conducted a sortie in strength from Fort Malbousquet and virtually destroyed the Battery of the Convention on the extreme left of the line, spiking the seven 24-pounders it contained.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Buonaparte was continually extemporizing solutions to such problems: hearing, for instance, that Lieutenant Colonel Gassendi of the artillery was near Grenoble on November 4, he requested him to make a detour by way of Saint-Etienne to collect some 10,000 spare musket barrels.12 By dint of superhuman exertions, in the end he was able to collect almost one hundred guns, including a fair proportion of 24-pounders and long-range mortars.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966