Netherlands Artillery
in the Waterloo Campaign
Foot Artillery Battery ‘Kaempfer’
by Geert van Uythoven, The Netherlands
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This ‘northern’ battery was served by the 3rd company of the 2nd Line artillery battalion. The battery was commanded by Captain Nicolaas Lodewijk Kaempfer (42 years old). Other officers: 1st Lieutenant J.J. Launspach; 2nd Lieutenant J.L. de Casembroot; 2nd Lieutenant J.B. Vitzo (or Vetzo). Train detachment: 1st Lieutenant Van Wijngaarde. This battery was armed with six short 6-pdr bronze cannon, and two 24-pdr (iron) bronze howitzers. In garrison in Gorinchem, on 18 March 1815 the company ‘Kaempfer’ was ordered to ‘s Hertogenbosch to make mobile a 6-pdr battery. From here, it left on 13 April for Louvain, arriving there on the 17th with a strength of 5 officers and 120 others, the horse teams formed with 186 requisitioned horses. This battery was assigned to the artillery reserve. On 12 June it had only half of the necessary horses present: and the battery having a strength of 4 officers, 110 others, and 3 horses. The train detachment had a strength of 2 officers, and 74 others, and 115 horses. Useless because of this lack of horses, during the retreat on the 17th it was ordered to retreat to Brussels to the main reserve park. Due to a misunderstanding of orders however it retreated to Louvain (Leuven) instead. Therefore, it was not present during the battle of Waterloo on the 18th. When on 30 June the Foot artillery battery ‘Stevenart’ was disbanded, the remaining horses were sent to the Foot artillery battery ‘Kaempfer’ to enable it to take the field, assigned to the 2nd Division. During the advance on Paris the battery took part in the siege of Valenciennes (29 June – 20 July), and arrived with the De Perponcher’s 2de Nederlandsche Divisie before Paris on 19 July. After the Waterloo campaign the battery marched back to the Netherlands, being garrisoned in Delft. Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part III: Artillery Batteries and Companies
Foot Artillery Company ‘Bunnik’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Du Bois’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Kaempfer’ Foot Artillery Company ‘Van der Linden’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Lux’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Riesz’ Foot Artillery Company ‘Rommel’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Scheffer’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Severijns’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Spies’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Steenberghe’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Stevenart’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Wijnands’ Horse Artillery Battery ‘Bijleveld’ Half Horse artillery Battery ‘Gey’ Horse Artillery Battery ‘Krahmer’ Half Horse Artillery Battery ‘Petter’ Acknowledgements, Bibliography, and Footnotes Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part II: Artillery Officers [First Empire 72]
Adriaan Bijleveld David Esaias Bode (Boode) Lodewijk Hendrik Du Bois A.Willem Du Pont Adrianus Rudolf Willem Gey Carel August Gunkel (Gunckel) Godfried Jacob Holsman Nicolaas Lodewijk Kaempfer Carel Frederik Krahmer de Bichin Martinus Antonius Kuytenbrouwer Frederik Carel List Johannes Hendrik Lux Prince (William) Frederick Carl van Oranje-Nassau Abraham Petter Carel Jan Riesz Johan George Hendrik Scheffer Jacques-Louis-Dominique, Baron van der Smissen Johannes Nicolaas Spies Maximilian-Henry Steenberghe Emmanuel-Joseph Stevenart Hendrik Rudolph Trip Pieter Wijnands Leopold Winssinger Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part I [First Empire 71]
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