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Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Artillery, British, Field and Naval
British artillery of the time was less sophisticated and less powerful than that of the Boers.
Comparable Boer guns also had longer ranges as is shown by a comparison of the performance
characteristics given above and below. In the case of the modern rifle and machine-gun, the
sophistication of weaponry in enemy hands was a new experience for the British from which it took
some time to recover.
At the outbreak of the war the British army had some 100 guns available of which only twentyseven were standard field artillery pieces of a reasonably modern design. The Royal Navy was able
to contribute seven 12-pounders carried for use ashore. The rest had to be improvised and, as a result
of the resourcefulness of Captain Percy Scott, shipboard 12-pounders, known as Long 12s, and 4.7inch guns were given emergency carriages or mounts and rushed to the front. The defence of
Ladysmith thus became possible. In the course of the war the Royal Field Artillery’s 15-pounders
were augmented by another 322 guns, fifty Pom-Poms, eighteen 5-inch breech-loaders, thirty-nine 5inch
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