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1 two-horse wagon, containing armorer's tools 220 pounds weight. 



Saddler's tools 110 " " 



Baggage of the surgeons 100 " " 



Medicines, &c 252 " " 



Total weight 682 " 



Each squadron has a two-horse cart, loaded as follows : 



Officers' mess chest 30 pounds weight. 



Farriers' tools "... 60 " " 



Spare equipment 173 " " 



Blankets for sick men 27 " " 



Baggage, &c., of orderly sergeant 20 " " 



Baggage, &c., of the medical personnel 60 " " 



Money, wlien on detachment 50 " " 



Total weight 420 " 



So long a time has elapsed since the Prussian cavalry have seen any serious field service on a 

 large scale, that they have hut little more than theory and remote traditions in this regard ; 

 it is proLahle that we have hut little to learn from them on this point. 



Tents are not used in the Prussian army ; the troops being placed in cantonments, huts, or 

 bivouacs. 



The huts are of wood or straw and either square or round ; the square huts are 15' square in 

 the interior and are for 14 men with their equipment ; the round huts are 20' in diame^' r and 

 contain 18 men with their equipment. 



The round huts are 36, the square 28 paces apart, from centre to centre. 



The huts of each squadron are in two rows, ftxcing each other and perpendicular to the front 

 of the camp ; the width of the street varying with the strength of the squadron . 



The picket ropes are stretched 3 paces in front of the lines of huts, and parallel to them; 

 they are attached to picket pins, driven firmly into the ground, 2 paces apart; 4| paces in rear 

 of the picket rope another rope is stretched, parallel to it to enclose the horses. The baggage 

 is in rear of the colonel's but; the kitchens 25 paces in rear of the baggage. 



The kitchens are ditches 15 paces long, and 2' deep, one for each squadron. 

 The latrines are 125 paces in rear of the kitchens ; those for the men are ditches 30' long and 3' 

 deep, which are renewed every 2 or 3 days in summer. 



A regiment of cavalry may bivouac either in line or with the rows of horses perpendicular 

 to the front, or in column by squadrons with half distance. 



1st. bivouac in une. 



Each squadron is allowed a space 75 paces long, by 30 paces deep, with intervals of 4 paces 

 between the squadrons. 



The kitchens are 10 paces behind the bivouac of the men ; the squadron officers 5 paces in rear of 

 the kitchens ; the staff 10 paces in rear of the squadron officers. 



The parade ground is in front of the bivouac, and must be at least 30 paces deep. 



A bivouac of this kind occupies a front of 312 paces, and a depth of 80 paces, counting from 

 the bivouac of the front rank to the baggage wagons, inclusive. 

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