|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Army:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Item
|
Amount | Number of Wagons | Number of Horses |
| Gun: 24 pounder | 30 |
---
|
300
|
| Mortar: 10 inch | 12 |
---
|
96
|
| Howitzer: 10 inch | 4 |
---
|
32
|
| Howitzer: 8 inch | 4 |
---
|
24
|
| General Stores | --- |
20
|
80
|
| Ammunition: First Day | 3600 rounds for 24 pounders |
65
|
260
|
| 960 10 inch mortar shells |
56
|
224
|
|
| 320 10 inch howitzer shells |
18
|
72
|
|
| 320 8 inch howitzer shells |
10
|
40
|
|
| Ammunition: Second Day | 3600 rounds for 24 pounders |
65
|
260
|
| 960 10 inch mortar shells |
56
|
224
|
|
| 320 10 inch howitzer shells |
18
|
72
|
|
| 320 8 inch howitzer shells |
10
|
40
|
|
| Ammunition: ThirdDay | 3600 rounds for 24 pounders |
65
|
260
|
| 960 10 inch mortar shells |
56
|
224
|
|
| 320 10 inch howitzer shells |
18
|
72
|
|
| 320 8 inch howitzer shells |
10
|
40
|
|
| Ammunition: Fourth Day | 3600 rounds for 24 pounders |
65
|
260
|
| 960 10 inch mortar shells |
56
|
224
|
|
| 320 10 inch howitzer shells |
18
|
72
|
|
| 320 8 inch howitzer shells |
10
|
40
|
|
| Total | 20,800 shells |
616 Wagons
|
2,916 Horses
|
Notes:
1. The Bathz, where the siege was taking place, was 27 miles (4 days) away from the disembarkation point (Sloe Passage). Thus the necessity for having a continual stream of wagons on the road to keep the siege artillery supplied with ammunition.
2. Author's Note: (P. 419) "The distance was about nine leagues and the road good, excepr for some miles next the Sloe Passage, which running along the crest of a narrow dyke, scarcely admitted of two carriages passing each other. Further, the surface of this dyke and the sides of the road generally being of fine clay, the rainy weather had rendered them quite soft, and in consequence it was calculated that each journey and the return of the horses, together, would at least occupy four days.
SOURCE:
Jones, John T. Journal of Sieges Carried on by the Army under the Duke of Wellington in Spain between the Years 1811 and 1814 Vol. II London : T. Egerton; 1827. Pp. 419 - 420
Placed on the Napoleon Series: September 2001
© Copyright 1995-2003, The Napoleon Series, All Rights Reserved.