Directions for numbering and detaching 15 men to the service of a light 6 pounder mounted upon a new pattern carriage, 1807.

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Cooper, Richard, fl. 1807. Directions for numbering and detaching 15 men to the service of a light 6 pounder mounted upon a new pattern carriage, 1807.

Directions for numbering and detaching 15 men to the service of a light 6 pounder mounted upon a new pattern carriage, 1807.

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Manuscript manual, in pen and brown ink, on the deployment of a light six pounder field artillery. The text, in a single hand, may have been copied by Richard Cooper, whose inscription (dated 29 Oct. 1807) appears at the front of the manual. It appears to be written as a fair copy, neatly framed in a double ruled border of lighter brown ink. The manuscript sets out, and illustrates, the dispositions for the gun, limber and gun crew, either advancing or retreating, both in and out of action, in situations as varied as getting through a defile, over ditches, through bad roads, up and down precipices, and embarking or disembarking flat boats. It also includes the dispositions for ammunition and stores as contrived by William Congreve. It concludes, following a list of the alterations made to the carriage and limber in 1776 by the Master General of the Ordnance, Viscount Townshend, with a comparative assessment of the old and new carriages. The text is illustrated with 30 diagrams drawn in pen and black ink, with numerical annotations (indicating the proper positions of the 15 artillery soldiers) in pen and reddish ink.

1 v. (216 p.) : ill. ; 17 cm.

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