Netherlands Artillery
in the Waterloo Campaign
Foot Artillery Battery ‘Wijnands’
by Geert van Uythoven, The Netherlands
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This ‘northern’ battery was served by the 2nd company of the 1st Line artillery battalion. The battery was commanded by Captain Pieter Wijnands. Other officers: 1st Lieutenant P.B. Oosthout; 1st Lieutenant A.P. Lamotte; 2nd Lieutenant A.C.J.M. den Beer Poortugael. Train detachment: 1st Lieutenant C. Nouman/Naumann; 2nd Lieutenant Lambregtse. On 12 June 1815 the battery had a strength of 4 officers, 114 others, and 3 horses. The train detachment had a strength of 2 officers, 104 others, and 188 horses. This battery was armed with six short 6-pdr bronze cannon, and two 24-pdr (iron) bronze howitzers. Battery ‘Wijnands’ was one of the first batteries that was made mobile, on paper being part of the ‘occupation army’ in the southern Netherlands that was commanded by Prince Frederick of Orange. It took much too long before this battery was able to take the field, and therefore it was soon replaced by the Horse artillery battery ‘Petter’. Being properly organised and its train detachment finally receiving enough horses, it joined the field army again on 20 May 1815, relieving the Foot artillery battery ‘Scheffer’ which was still in no shape to take the field and returned to Breda. The battery was assigned to the 2nd Brigade (Major-General Dominique Jacques d’Eerens) of the 1ste Nederlandsche Divisie (Lieutenant-General Jan Andries Stedman). This Division saw no action during the battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, being part of Prince Frederick of Orange’s troops at Halle. However, during the advance on Paris the battery took part in the capture of the fortress-city Le Quesnoy, bombarding the place from 26 until 29 June. After that, it took part in the capture of Valenciennes (20 July). After the Waterloo campaign, the battery marched back to the Netherlands, being garrisoned in Tournay, where its personnel was gradually replaced by men of the southern Netherlands. 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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