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by Friedrich August I. » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:37 am
Hi Greg and Bill
As a Saxon by choice I can only refer to them as most of what I know are from Saxon and prussian sources like Artillery Manuals and Army Organisation Charts.
Saxon Regimental Artillery was first introduced in 7YW when 2 guns were attached to each Line Infantry and Grenadier Battalion.
Within the 7YW all of this guns were lost to the anexion of Saxon by the Prussians. While Saxon units fought alongside with the French against Prussian/Hannoverian Armies the got french Battalion guns attached.
After the 7YW the Saxon gave them back and rethought their Artillery and invented the M1766 System to straightining and modernise the used guns.
Since that time the Regimental "Battery" was allways a fixed part of the Saxon Army, disbanded only once after Jena 1806 because of the losses.
As the Saxons didnt have time enough to rethink the M1766 4pdr-Schnellfeuergeschuetz which they used as their Regimental guns they used them until all of them were lost in Russia. After 1812 they were finaly abandoned.
A Saxon Regimental "Battery" consisted of 4 pieces 4 pdr guns M1766 Schnellfeuergeschuetze, Artillerycrew from the Artilleryregiment 1 Officier and 62 men, 4 horse Limbers, 8 Ammunition Caissons and drivers from the Train Battallion.
These guns were only used to support the regiments. They were never grouped together to form brigade batteries, they marched with the Infantry Regiments they were attached to and they weren't removed until the war has ended when they got back to the Zeughaus in Dresden where all the Field Artillery were kept, approx. 300 Cannons of all kind.
The Saxons had 16 Foot Batteries, they had Personal for it but lacking the horse flesh to put them all in the field. 13x6pdr Batteries and 3x 12pdr batteries. The 16 batteries were formed in 4 groups of 4 companies each, one was ment to be in reserve and the remaining 12 were grouped 3x4 into the Mobil Division Artillery parks. Each park has had 4 field battieries, 3x6pdr and 1x12pdr batteries.
The informations are from Rouveroy, Scharnhorst, Nafziger, The Festung Königstein, The Dresden Hauptzeughaus and Jörg Titze, who started to write about the Saxons while Germany was still split in two.
Hope that makes sence...
Günter
(sorry I had to edit this heavly because i wrote it before I went to my job)
„Macht Euch Euren Dregg alleene“
"Sort your filth out by yourself!" The King of Saxony Friedrich August III., at his abdication 1918, referred to the quarrels in the parliament and the squabbling within the provisional government.