Artillery
La Hitte rifled cannon
Mallet's artillery at Tuyutí.
- System
- French, 1858; muzzle-loading, six grooves
- Material
- Bronze
- Calibers in Brazil
- 4-, 6- and 12-pounders
- Range
- About 3,000 m for the 4-pounder field gun
It was the first rifled field gun adopted in series. It fired ogival projectiles with studs that followed the rifling, with far more range and accuracy than round shot. At Tuyutí, Emílio Mallet's batteries, protected by a ditch, stopped the Paraguayan columns with canister; for their rate of fire they were called the “revolver artillery”.
‡ Disputed.How many pieces Mallet had at Tuyutí: one source speaks of thirty La Hittes; other figures do not distinguish the model.
Sources: Antonio Ferreira Sobrinho, Revista do Exército Brasileiro; Francisco Doratioto, Maldita guerra (2002).
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