artillery in the WSS

[footslogger]

I'd like to learn more about this in two ways.

First, I'd like to learn about it as a combat arm. There seems to be precious little written about it for this period. There are no sections on it in Nosworthy's book and I'm having trouble finding a book through searching in various online references that devotes much time to artillery in this period. Anybody have good pointers here?

Second, I'd like to learn about it from a modeling point of view. I'm working on French and Allies for the low countries battles. Of the OBATs and historical descriptions I can find precious little about the breakdown of guns by caliber, and in the case of the allies, by contributor. Iain Stanford has a good breakdown by caliber for both the French and Allies at Blenheim and identifies at least some of the guns as coming from the English artillery train. Are there good sources for this someone could point me towards?

Thanks,
-f

[footslogger]

It does help. Thanks.

[yar68]

The following is list from "The British Army of William III", by C A Sapherson. It may be a bit early for you but it may help,

The guns at Steenkirk (1692) & Landen (1693) consisted of:

8 Demi-Culverines, 9 pounders
10 Sakers, 6 pounders
20 Blank 3 pounders
4 howitzers, 8 inch
2 Brass petards (small mortars)

A Later train

14 guns of 24 pounds
16 guns of 18 pounds
8 howitzers of 13 inch
6 petards of brass
12 mortars, 10 inch
grenades 20,000