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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: smirnoff on 17 November 2013, 05:58:38 PM
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Could anyone tell me what the Russian Mountain guns were circa 1895 please?
In a wiki article it is mentioned that 'Russia provided the mountain guns the Ethiopian army used in the 1895 Battle of Adwa'.
Any ideas what they may be?
I have looked at the Russian Artillery Museum site but can't find detailed reference to mountain guns before 1904:
'The necessity of fighting in mountain conditions required the creation of lighter guns adapted for transporting them in packs, with a shell flight trajectory more carved than that of field cannons. The Russian 3‑inch quick-firing cannon Model 1904 made in the Obukhov works became such a gun for the Russian army. However, due to some of Model 1904’s shortcomings the 3‑inch (76‑mm) mountain cannon Model 1909 offered by the Putilov works became the main gun in mountain artillery. An example of the latter is displayed in the room together with a cartridge and a 3‑inch high-explosive trinitrotoluene shell.'
http://www.artillery-museum.ru/en/schema-2.html
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a source, in french :
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Arm%C3%A9e_de_M%C3%A9n%C3%A9lik (https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Arm%C3%A9e_de_M%C3%A9n%C3%A9lik) ( look at VII )
seems that ethiopian army used no or very few russian guns, mainly anglo egyptian guns and french hotchkiss kick firing .
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Thank you
So I am still on the trail of what mountain guns the Russians used in the 1890s.......
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Cuprum has come up trumps on this (again).
Many thanks Michael.
They used "Mountain 2.5-inch gun mod. 1883"
I will upload the images he sent me later
There are also images on his site:
http://siberia-miniatures.ru/forum/showthread.php?tid=115&fid=12&block=30