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Grand Battery (Grande Batterie, meaning big or great battery) was a French artillery tactic of the Napoleonic Wars.[1] It involved massing all available batteries into a single large, temporary one, and concentrating the firepower of their guns at a single point in the enemy's lines.
Substituting volume of fire for accuracy, a rate of fire and rapid movement, it was rarely used in the wars' early years. As the quality of artillery crews and their horses declined, it was employed more frequently during later (post-1808) campaigns.
- ^ Cornwell, Bernard (2015). Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 166–167. ISBN 978-0-06-231206-8.