The basing of artillery and other conundrums...

[grizzlymc]

Handy for beating off cavalry.

[Jeremy]

Handy for beating off cavalry.

You sick bastard, couldn’t you have stopped at the men, did you have to include the horses too?

[levied troop]

Listen, we may be wankers, but we are inclusive wankers.

[Buff Orpington]

But we usually charge extra for animals and Norm refuses to entertain monkeys.

[grizzlymc]

But, he's happy exterminating them.

[Buff Orpington]

Ukrainian feral dogs have blacklisted Norm as they suspect that he has an ulterior motive.

[Buff Orpington]

Not bad, a thread that stayed on topic for 2 pages.

[grizzlymc]

But a rapid descent to the depths of de bollocked Ukrainian radioactive dogs.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

well c'mon explain it - who is meant to stand where?

This explains it rather nicely = go to 3:30 for the relevant bit (Napoleonic), but the whole thing is worth watching. A British crew would have the guy with the rammer and the guy loading the round into the barrel on the opposite sides of the barrel from the French, and they would also "hide" in between the barrel and the wheel whilst the gun is being fired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuSqE1HoCM

This is the same but in close-up:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx2IQViUmkc

Happy now?

(Oh, and the standing to one side with one hand over the nearest ear and bending over (like a folk singer about to be sick) is also a drill book position. Odd that nobody makes figures like that, isn't it?)