I'm surprised that J.H. Risoon has rules to allow for the breaking of British squares by cavalry. Even French squares didn't break except Garcia Hernandez, and the key to that was surely morale? I would also like to get in touch with someone familiar with Napoleonic artillery and its effectiveness. I find the matter difficult to bring down to arithmetic -- it is hard to find records of units who were fired upon by artillery alone, so that their casualties can be separately attributed to gunfire. I'm slowly building up a table to try and deduce how many guns could halt what. If anyone has done this already please contact me. I strongly recommend a French gramophone record 'La Garde Imperiale' - 'evocation historic ue et musicale'. It is the musical interpretation on the songs, marche, calls etc from the appendix to Lachouque's 'Napoleon et la Garde Imperiale' (unfortunately left out of Anatomy of Glory). This selection is played on the original instrument and is numbered : LUMEN LD - 3 - 800. If nothing else will persuade one that the Guard came on at 75 paces to the minute, this will! Many of us have read the Great Siege (Malta 1565) by Bradford and will know that it is the most interesting in its revelations of the power of gunfire at the time. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 25 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1964 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com