Selasa, 18 Juli 2017

Interactive: Mexican War Artillery, 1846

You are Captain James Duncan, commander of Battery A, 2d United States Artillery. Your battery consists of four 6- pounder cannon drawn by teams of horses, making them highly maneuverable and extremely mobile “light artillery.” Your unit’s 50 Soldiers travel by riding atop the horses pulling the cannon and their accompanying caissons of ammunition or …

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