Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 163
h came into use some years afterwards, were pro¬ bably a development of this system. It is said, I know not with what truth, that Frederick the Great used 3-pr. gallopers, “ which answered very well,”1 2 and it is certain that in 1747 in Germany the Duke of Cumberland had six gallopers, IJ-prs.,… … The cheeks of the carriage terminated in a splinter-bar, on which the coin or elevating screw rested. This system furnishes a remarkable illustration of the difference between mere lightness and mobility. Light to excess, it yet possessed no real mobility ; for if the guns were pushed forward into…
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