Netherlands Artillery
in the Waterloo Campaign
Foot Artillery Battery ‘Spies’
by Geert van Uythoven, The Netherlands
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This ‘northern’ battery was served by the 4th company of 2nd Line artillery battalion. The battery was commanded by Captain Johannes Nicolaas Spies. This battery was armed with six short 6-pdr bronze cannon, and two 24-pdr (iron) bronze howitzers. In garrison in The Hague, the battery remained there for the time being, but later went to Delft to make mobile a 6-pdr battery, probably during April 1815. On 23 and 25 May the battery moved to Breda in two halves, using requisitioned horses. On 15 June, this battery was still there without any horse teams. Finally during July 1815, the Foot artillery battery ‘Spies’ received enough horse teams to take the field, giving the Netherlands mobile army a total of ten artillery batteries. It was assigned to the 2nd Netherlands Army Corps (Prince Frederick of Orange) instead of the Foot artillery battery ‘Riesz’, which had left the Mobile army on 16 August to follow its original destination the Dutch East Indies. After the Waterloo campaign, the battery marched back to the Netherlands, being garrisoned in Maastricht. 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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