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MILITARY COMMISSION TO EUROPE. 

 General composition and strength of the several army corps — Continued. 



Total combatants of the active army : 394,836 infantry, 83,653 cavalry, 27,101 artillery, 9,172 engineer troops, 1,044 

 gnns; or, 514,762 men, and 108,425 horses. This is the number of troops disposable upon the breaking out of an Euro- 

 pean war, excluding reserves, and without calling upon any of the local troops doing garrison duty in the interior. If the 

 war is of such a nature that the defence of the Caucasus can be intrusted to the native troops, there may be added to the 

 grand army the 19th, 20th, and 21st divisions of infantry, the elite brigade, (10th grenadiers and 4th carbineers,) and the 

 9th dragoons—!, e. 58,864 infantry and 1,729 cavalry. It is also to be observed that, on the breaking out of war, these 

 troops ought to contain, under ordinary circumstances, neither recruits nor invalids. 



The losses by disease on the Danube, the immense length of tlie lines of communication, and the necessity of keeping 

 formidable armies near the Baltic and in Poland, will sufficiently account for the small portion of this mass concentrated in 

 the Crimea in the early part of the late war. 



