After discovering the artillery pieces and the equipment used by the
Foot Artillery at the end of the Ancien Regime, the Revolution and the
First Empire, discover the men of the "Arme Savante" (the knowledgeable
arm) who moved their guns around and served them on horseback. The
mobile artillery, then the light artillery and finally the Horse
Artillery was a new weapon which announced the changes in the centuries
to come... Just like the Artillery Train which, with the First Empire,
finally grew up, to the age of regulations.
This was the organization of Mr. de Gribeauval, the Inspector of
Artillery, set up slowly over nearly thirty years and which remained
more or less as it was until 1825.