The 8-pounder long gun was a light calibre piece of artillery mounted on French warships of the Age of Sail. It fired a projectile of eight livres in weight, equivalent to 8.633 English pounds, or 8 l
Wagram was a first-rate 118-gun Océan-class ship of the line built for the French Navy during the 1810s. Completed in 1811, the ship participated in the Action of 5 November 1813 during the Napoleonic
Portrait of Wagram by François Roux
Fight of the Wagram in the Action of 5 November 1813, by Auguste Mayer