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I'm currently working on updating and rewriting the article. I'm a bit puzzled about the inclusion of the picture of German WW II artillery, though. The source describes it as "horse-drawn artillery". Isn't this just an example of artillery using horses for transportation rather than rapid deployment on the battlefield?

Peter ^Isotalo 22:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Would the Anglophobes protest if the East India Company's use of horse artillery in the 1750s was mentioned?

Against whom? And is there a source for it?

Peter ^Isotalo 11:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

http://www.army.mod.uk/3rha/mbty.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.67.49.34 (talk) 10:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great War

I believe this article would benefit with more on WWI. Were horse artillery units at the time simply ordinary field artillery units in (or attached to) cavalry divisions, or were they using specialist guns? Our section on mountain artillery is enviable and could be used as a model, maybe. Boris B (talk) 10:19, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree, but I keep wondering how much there actually is to say about the Great War. I don't know anything about the use of the arm by actual combatants, Britain in particular, but from what I remember of Hedberg the Swedish horse artillery regiment wasn't disbanded until 1927 and kept doing their excercises well into the 1920s.

Peter ^Isotalo 15:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)