Mollinary, you posted recently either here or on TMP re your recent findings on shrapnel and the Moyses Reilly memo; I've been looking for said post but I can't find it, can you help ?
I think you are conflating two separate posts, and adding something I said when we were in Bohemia! Bottom line is, Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen does not say that they had no shrapnel - I looked it up. Reilly's memorandum says that for the Prussians, like the British, "the same description of ammunition is used as with our field guns, - shrapnel or segment, common shell, and grape. There are no time fuses in the service for the rifled guns. All rifled projectiles are fired with a percussion fuse. For the smoothbore guns there is a fuze fixed for the single range of 2,000 paces." We already know that shrapnel was used by the 12pdrs. Reilly's memorandum shows the arrangement of ammo carried in 6pdr and 4pdr limbers, and it is clear that while the 6pdrs had shrapnel, the 4pdrs did not. This is confirmed by the overall ammo useage, whereby the 6pdrs in Bohemia fired a total of 778 rounds of shrapnel as opposed to about 15,000 rounds of shell. The 4pdrs fired no shrapnel, which confirms the absence of this ammo for this type of gun.
Mollinary
Quite possibly, from memory can you remember the TMP one ? Oh, and sorry to be a bore, the figure of 778 rounds of shrapnel fired by the 6pdrs, where did that one come form, was that Moyses Reilly too ?
I think the one you mean is on page 4 of How common was counter battery canister fire? On the Napoleonic Discussion forum. If that is not the one you are looking for, and it was a thread you posted on, I suggest you type Mollinary into the search window for authors, and look at likely threads, and then type Ramming and do the same thing. I don't think there will be a vast overlap! And yes, that figure of shrapnel used by 6pds is from Reilly.
Mollinary
That's the one, thank you.