Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo - French Imperial Guard Horse artillery 6-pdr battery 0819 with its small

with its small

depth charges and a 20mm on the stern

armed with doglock carbines which could be fired from the saddle

the FN M2HB remains in service with the Belgian military today

Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo - French Imperial Guard Horse artillery 6-pdr battery 0819 with its smallThe horse artillery was not just the elite of Napoleon's Guard Artillery but the creme de la Creme of European artillery in the period. Guard horse artillery can quickly counter enemy threats, able as they are to reposition at the gallop as needed. France's foremost historian on the Napoleonic Wars, Commandant Henry Lachouque, writes in his book 'Anatomy of Glory Napoleon and his Guard', "There was, perhaps, no class of men on the face of Earth, who