A sketch of the exercise, service, & manöeuvres of the field pieces : attached to The Honorable Artillery Company

A sketch of the exercise, service, & manöeuvres of the field pieces : attached to The Honorable Artillery Company

Words of command for the light six pounder exercise beginning when the guns are limbered & the detachment formed upon a march

[London?] 1798

83, [5] p. : ill. ; 9 x 12 cm.

MSS L2015F67 [Bound]

Field exercises developed by Captain William Congreve in 1776 for use with his newly introduced light six-pound cannon for the British army, illustrated throughout with sketch diagrams of the movements of the artillery pieces through the complex exercises.
"Words of command for the light six pounder exercise beginning when the guns are limbered & the detachment formed upon a march" enclosed at end ([16] p.)
Pocket notebook bound in brown leather with brass clasp closure.
This exercise was never published; each officer in the Royal Artillery made his own fair hand copy of the original Congreve ms.
Library copy made by or for Lieutenant Lane of the elite, Honorable Artillery Company of London, 1798.
Digitized image available [title and page 1].

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