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dans de certains occasions, parceqne rien n'impose tant aux troupes que 
l'artillerie, particulierement lorsqu'elles ne s'y attendent pas." 
The galloper guns, which came into use some years afterwards, were pro¬ 
bably a development of this system. It is said, I know not with what truth, 
that Frederick the Great used 3-pr. gallopers, “ which answered very well,” 1 2 
and it is certain that in 1747 in Germany the Duke of Cumberland had six 
gallopers, IJ-prs., “such as are now (1799) fired in St. James's Park on 
rejoicing days." 3 The carriages were “made with shafts, so as to be drawn 
without a limber," 3 the shafts acting as a trail when the gun was in action. 
The cheeks of the carriage terminated in a splinter-bar, on which the coin or 
elevating screw rested. This system furnishes a remarkable illustration of 
the difference between mere lightness and mobility. Light to excess, it yet 
possessed no real mobility; for if the guns were pushed forward into action 
at a faster pace than that at which the ammunition, carried in country 
carts, and the gunners, marching on foot, could move, namely, a walk, the 
1 James’s “ Military Dictionary.” London, 1802. Art. Carriage. 
2 “ British Military Library.” London, 1799, Vol. I. Hist, of the Eoyal Eegiment of Artillery. 
3 James’s “Mil. Diet.” Fig. 4 shows a galloper carriage. It is taken from the “Artillerie 
Pratique, employee sous les regnes de Louis XIV, et de Louis XV.,” par le Baron Espiard de 
Colon ge. Plate 14, 
