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Hi all,
I don't have info or anything I just need answers. 'Cause right now I am writing a book on the Early Gunners (1492 Please) and I have some questions.
What was the main type of Cannon used?
Could someone provide me a link to a picture of the early gunners please?
What was the first campaigns by English Gunners?
Thanks, thats all for now.
Thanks for reply,
I saw those ones earlier, but was hoping for specfic info on their earlier campaigns, and uniform. Is there any of that sortta info?
When you say gunners I take it you mean artillery specialist?
I quite doubt anything that would qualify as an "uniform" was used at that time. Took a century or so longer before those started appearing on someone other than galley slaves and the like, AFAIK.
The first time guns are recorded as having been used by an English army was at the siege of Berwick in 1333. Some have commented that the way they are were described as having been used suggests that their purpose was to fire over the walls and burn buildings inside, which would help to explain why trebuchets and other engines continued to be used for several decades more. Other early references include the use of "gonnes" at Crecy, a muster of soldiers at Norwich in 1350, to which two leading citizens took hand guns, and a record of prices of various things which noted that guns were very cheap compared to a springald (13s 4d versus £3 6s 8d). Cannon were used at Cherbourg in 1379. All this can be found in easily available books, edited collections, and journal articles and they will point you in the direction of the primary sources, which should be your first port of call if you are a historian. I don't intend any offence but quite frankly it is not good academic or professional practice to garner information for anything that is to be published from an internet forum on a video game, or Wikipedia.