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Selected Bibliography of
Cannon Information Sources
The following is a
listing of the more important sources
dealing with the development of
artillery which have been consulted in
the production of this booklet. None of
the German or Italian sources have been
included, since practically no German or
Italian guns were used in this country
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SPANISH ORDNANCE.
Luis Collado, "Platica Manual de la
Altillería" ms., Milan 1592, and Diego
Ufano, Artillerie, n. p., 1621,
have detailed information on sixteenth
century guns, and Tomás de Morla,
Láminas pertenecientes al Tratado de
Artillería, Madrid, 1803,
illustrates eighteenth century material.
Thor Borresen, "Spanish Guns and
Carriages, 1686-1800" ms., Yorktown,
1938, summarizes eighteenth century
changes in Spanish and French artillery.
Information on colonial use of cannon
can be found in mss. of the Archivo
General de Indias as follows:
Inventories of Castillo de San Marcos
armament in 1683 (58-2-2,32/2), 1706
(58-1-27,89/2), 1740 (58-1-32), 1763
(86-7-11,19), Zuñiga's report on the
1702 siege of St. Augustine (58-2-8,B3)
and Arredondo's "Plan de la Ciudad de
Sn. Agustín de la Florida" (87-1-1/2,
ms. map); and other works, including
[Andres Gonzales de Barcía,] Ensayo
Cronológico para la Historia General de
la Florida, Madrid, 1723; J. T.
Connor, editor, Colonial Records of
Spanish Florida, Deland, 1930, Vol.
II., Manuel de Montiano, Letters of
Montiano (Collections of the Georgia
Historical Society, v. VII, Pt. I),
Savannah 1909; Albert Manucy, "Ordnance
used at Castillo de San Marcos,
1672-1834," St. Augustine, 1939. |
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BRITISH ORDNANCE. For
detailed information John Müller,
Treatise of Artillery, London, 1756,
has been the basic source for eighteenth
century material. William Bourne, The
Arte of Shooting in Great Ordnance,
London, 1587, discusses sixteenth
century artillery; and the anonymous
New Method of Fortification, London,
1748, contains much seventeenth century
information. For colonial artillery data
there is John Smith, The Generall
Historie of Virginia, New-Englande, and
the Summer Isles, Richmond, 1819;
[Edward Kimber] Late Expedition to
the Gates of St. Augustine, Boston,
1935; and C. L. Mowat, East Florida
as a British Province, 1763-1784,
Los Angeles, 1939. Charles J. Ffoulkes,
The Gun-Founders of England,
Cambridge, 1937, discusses the
construction of early cannon in England.
FRENCH ORDNANCE. M.
Surirey de Saint-Remy, Memories
d'Artillerie, 3rd edition Paris,
1745, is the standard source for French
artillery material in the seventeenth
and early eighteenth centuries. Col.
Favé, Ètudes sur le Passé et l'Avenir
de L'Artillerie, Paris, 1863, is a
good general history. Louis Figurier,
Armes de Guerre, Paris, 1870, is
also useful. |
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UNITED STATES
ORDNANCE. Of first importance is Louis
de Tousard, American Artillerist's
Companion, 2 vols., Philadelphia,
1809-13. For performance and use of
artillery during the 1860's the
following sources are useful: John
Gibbon, The Artillerist's Manual,
New York, 1863; Q. A. Gillmore,
Engineer and Artillery Operations
against the Defences of Charleston
Harbor in 1863, New York, 1865; his
Official Report . . . of the Siege
and Reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia,
New York, 1862; and the Official
Records of Union and Confederate Armies
and Navies. Ordnance manuals of the
period include: Instruction for Heavy
Artillery, U. S., Charleston, 1861;
Ordnance Instructions for the United
States Navy, Washington, 1866; J.
Gorgas, The Ordnance Manual for the
Use of the Officers of the Confederate
States Army, Richmond, 1863. For
United States developments after 1860:
L. L. Bruff, A Text-book of Ordnance
and Gunnery, New York, 1903; F. T.
Hines and F. W. Ward, The Service of
Coast Artillery, New York, 1910; the
U. S. Field Artillery School's
Construction of Field Artillery Materiel
and General Characteristics of Field
Artillery Ammunition, Fort Sill,
1941. |
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GENERAL. For the
history of artillery, as well as
additional biographical and technical
details, there is the Field Artillery
School's excellent booklet, History
of the Development of Field Artillery
Materiel, Fort Sill, 1941. Henry W.
L. Hime, The Origin of Artillery,
New York, 1915, is most useful, as is
that standard work, the Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1894 edition: Arms and
Armour, Artillery, Gunmaking, Gunnery,
Gunpowder; 1938 edition: Artillery,
Coehoorn, Engines of War, Fireworks,
Gribeauval, Gun, Gunnery, Gunpowder,
Musket, Ordnance, Rocket, Smallarms, and
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