Gribeauval System - Volume 2

Letrun, Ludovic; Mongin, Jean

ISBN 10: 2352503965 / ISBN 13: 9782352503965

Published by Histoire and Collections, FR, 2015

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This work presents in detail the uniforms of the foot artillery between 1786 and 1815. Formal in style, and indeed austere, the uniforms illustrated here were the very ones worn by those who participated in during the most crucial and of the Empire. (71 plates including 29 by Ludovic Letrun) An important part of the book is devoted to the detailed description of equipment (artillery, ammunitions, front axle units, forges, etc.). Developed and used by the gunners ever since the reforms of Mr. Gribeauval, his construction tables provide a clear presentation of primary artillery as well as the basic tactics employed by the Army.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gribeauval System - Volume 2
• Publisher: Histoire and Collections, FR
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2352503965
• ISBN 13: 9782352503965
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

After discovering the artillery pieces and the equipment used by the Foot Artillery at the end of the Ancien Regime, the Revolution and the First Empire, discover the men of the “Arme Savante” (the knowledgeable arm) who moved their guns around and served them on horseback. The mobile artillery, then the light artillery and finally the Horse Artillery was a new weapon which announced the changes in the centuries to come… Just like the Artillery Train which, with the First Empire, finally grew up, to the age of regulations.

This was the organization of Mr. de Gribeauval, the Inspector of Artillery, set up slowly over nearly thirty years and which remained more or less as it was until 1825.