Licorne

[5] A further 105 licornes were introduced the next year as replacement for medium artillery in other army units, including the cavalry.

[5] In the same year two half-pood licornes (and four secret howitzers) were loaned for a demonstration to the Austrians, but they found the range too short, and the carriages too heavy.

[5] Official tests were arranged in Russia in 1760, but these failed to show an appreciable advantage of the licorne over older designs.

[5] The number of licornes in service rose to 280 in that year, compared with 603 cannons, 169 howitzers, and 117 mortars; most of them (224) were in the field artillery.

[4] This arrangement is now usually called the "System of 1805", and was largely devised by Aleksey Arakcheyev, after the lessons learned at the Battle of Austerlitz, where Russian artillery had performed poorly.