- foot artillery
- horse artillery
- battalion guns
Equipment:
The Dutch military historian J.W. Sypeteijn mentions in his book "Geschiedenis van het regiment Rijdende Artillerie"1852 the following regarding the artillery:
"Omtrent het materieel dat te velde toen werd gebruikt zij nog opgemerkt, dat de affuiten en voertuigen hier te lande sedert 1773 waren ingerigt naar het stelsel van Gribeauval, dat in 1765 in Frankrijk was ingevoerd."
which in English means:"Regarding the material that was used in the field it needs to be mentioned that gun-carriages and transport vehicles since 1773 were following the gribeauval system which was used in France since 1765".
If this is correct; the Dutch used gun-carriges, limbers and vehicles which looked the same as the French. The gun tubes themselves were made in the Dutch Republic itself.
Some pictures of guns from the Dutch Artillery Museum which also show that the colour of the carriage was a dark red and metalworks black. Probably the limbers and other artillery vehicles were painted the same.
The underneath gun is a 6pdr, made by the Maritz factory on a gribeauval carriage.
A Dutch reenactment group (the Stadskanonniers Amersfoort) have a remade gun and limber which are underneath
Organisation
The field artillery regiment had a strength of 4 (later 5 battalions) each of 5 companies where one company was the same as a battery.
In 1793 a horse artillery contingent were raised of 2 brigades each of 2 companies (ie 2 batteries).
A horse artillery battery consisted of 4 6dr, 2 3pdr and 2 24pdr houwitzers.
Each infantery battalion had two 3pdr battalion pieces.
The drivers of the artillery were still hired civilians; even the new raised horse artillery had to use civilian personnel.
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