Henry V’s
force of 1415 was the first English army to use real artillery, though siege
guns played no part at Agincourt . They had pet names as ‘London’ and the ‘Kings daughter ‘, and were
served by German “gun-master,” 
Ten years later the Regent, Bedford took a powerful
artillery train to France and introduced something like field-guns, small
“hand-cannon” firing stone shot of two pounds’ weight.

 
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