BAL-02-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale set we are offering. It comes is its original box and is in like-new condition.
John Jenkins Designs BAL-02 British Artillery Limber with 6 Pound Cannon
Limited Edition #171 of 300.
In the field the British artillery was served by a well organized system of rolling stock. There were wagons for carrying ammunition, powder carts for extra powder, 2 wheeled tumbrels for general supplies and of course there were the limbers.
The mid 18th Century British artillery limbers had changed little since the previous Century, and consisted of a pair of wheels with a pintle on the axle for hooking through the trail transom of the cannon carriage. There were also shafts for hitching the horses. The 6 pounder cannons were pulled by 2 horses, and there were 6 brass 6 pounders with the Braddock column at the Battle on the Monongahela.
Civilian Labourers were used extensively as drivers to help move the artillery. The rough roads which were constructed for the Monongahela expedition were very difficult going for the British artillery, and progress was as slow as 2 miles a day. The heavier 12 pdr cannons were left behind and only the half dozen 6pdr cannons accompanied Braddock on the final leg of his expedition.
There were approximately 80 civilian wagoneers, out of a reported 300 non-combatants that accompanied the British column at Monongahela.
9-piece set.