Prussian 6pdr foot artillery battery - finished unit

 Artillery is an essential part of any Napoleonic era army. The next unit of my Napoleonic late Prussian army is a foot artillery battery.

The Prussians had very large brigades - like even 9 or more battalions of infantry. Every brigade had one battery of foot artillery as support. Also the army corps had an artillery reserve with several different type of batteries to ellocate them on the battlefield were there was the biggest need of them.

The standard 6pdr Prussian cannon was very similar to the French Gribeauval system 6pdr. According to the sources I could found, the Prussian guns and carriages were painted in a mid-blue colour and their metal parts were black. The barrels of the 6pdr guns were made of bronze. One 6dpr foot artillery battery had 6 6pdr cannons and 2 7-inch howitzers. My battery has 3 cannons and one howitzer, but I can split it in half to represent two batteries.

After their disastrous defeat in 1806, the Prussians lost many of their guns to the French. There was an urgent need for artillery when Prussia had to mibilize for the Befreiungskriege in 1813. This shortage was helped by the military aid from Britain who gave the Prussians many of their 6pdrs because they had the same caliber. Also there were some captured French guns, but the projectile of the French System An XI 6pdr was not compatible with the Prussian or British one. Later on I would like to represent a Prussian horse artillery battery with British guns.