Horse artillery
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Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing field artillery that consisted of light cannons or howitzers attached to light but sturdy two-wheeled carriages called caissons or lim
A lifesize model of a Swedish 1850s horse artillery team towing a light artillery piece, in the Swedish Army Museum, Stockholm.
A QF 13-pounder of the Royal Horse Artillery moving into position on the Western Front during World War I
French horse artilleryman of the Imperial Guard
Battery M, 2nd U.S. Horse Artillery, 1862. Photo by James F. Gibson. Library of Congress
QF 13-pounder gun
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The Ordnance QF 13-pounder field gun was the standard equipment of the British and Canadian Royal Horse Artillery at the outbreak of World War I.
Horse artillery
…same field gun used by other units. France and the United Kingdom, however, used specialist horse guns (the Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider and the Ordnance QF 13 pounder, respectively.) Subsequently, the cavalry and horse artillery units were rearmed with tanks and self-propelled artillery. As with the cavalry, though…
Battery and detachments of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) near Belah, Palestine, March 1918
13-pdr state saluting guns of the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery at the 2009 Trooping the Colour
A 13-pounder of the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, firing a gun salute in Hyde Park, London in April 2018.