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menis (Jig. 3) : black, with white lace ; red sabretache, with white cypher, 

 the death's-head on the cap ; black caparison, with red and white trim- 

 mings ; black belts ; Hungarian saddle. The 7th regiment : black, with 

 yellow lace. The 4th : brown, with yellow lace. The 3d and 8th {jig. 

 8): dark blue, with yellow and white lace. The 6th, 10th, and llih: 

 dark green, with white and with yellow lace. The 9th and 12th : light 

 blue, with white and with yellow lace. The 5th (Bliicher's) regiment : 

 crimson, with white lace ; caparison crimson, with black and white trim- 

 mings. Two guard hulan regiments {fig. 4) : blue jackets (collet), with 

 different colored collars, cuffs, facings, and girdles ; deep blue chapkas 

 (caps) ; white belts, and lance with black and white pennon ; white horse- 

 hair plume on the chapka ; Hungarian saddle : dark blue caparison, with 

 trimmings the color of the facings. Eight hulan regiments {fig. 7) : 

 dark blue, with red collars, cuffs, facings, and girdles ; deep blue chapka, 

 without plume. The landwehr cavalry {fig. 9) have dark blue frock-coat, 

 with colored collar and shoulder straps, and girdle with colored edge ; 

 black casques, with yellow plating and point, and lances like the hulans ; 

 Hungarian saddle, with dark blue caparison, with trimmings the color of 

 the collar ; belts white. The arms of the cavalry are : for the cuirassiers, 

 the long, straight sword, for the remainder, the curved sabre, pistols, and, 

 in addition, carbines for the dragoons, and for the hulans, lances. The 

 fourth subdivision of each squadron has carbines. Each cavalry regiment 

 has four squadrons, with 6 officers, 15 non-commissioned officers, 1 surgeon, 

 1 farrier, 3 trumpeters,and 127 (in the guard 137) men, so that, including 

 the staff, the regiment numbers 616 (in the guard 636) aggregate, with 570 

 royal horses. 



The Artillery consists of one guard and eight army brigades, and one labo- 

 ratory division. Each brigade has 3 horse and 12 foot batteries, of which 

 each is manned by one company. There is besides, one company of 

 artificers. Three companies man 12-pounder batteries of six 12-pounder 

 guns and two 10-pounder howitzers each; three horse and five of the foot 

 companies man 6-pounder batteries of six 6-pounder guns, and two 7-pounder 

 howitzers each. Two foot companies man each a howitzer battery, the 

 one of six 10-pounder, the other of eight 7-pounder howitzers. Three 

 foot companies are assigned to the fortress service. In peace, only 20 

 pieces of the brigade are harnessed, and then the brigade has 1 brigadier, 

 3 chiefs of sections, 1 staff officer, 15 captains, 16 first and 32 second 

 lieutenants, 192 non-commissioned officers, 240 bombardiers, 35 musicians, 

 980 cannoniers, 1 regimental surgeon, 16 company surgeons, 6 farriers ; 

 aggregate 1524 men, which in time of war is increased to 5000 men and 

 3600 horses. The uniform is, for the foot artillery, the same as the infantry ; 

 for the horse artillery, as for the dragoons, only that the frock-coats are 

 dark blue. Collar flaps and cuflfs are black, with red edgings, for the 

 officers velvet, for the guard with yellow lace ; edgings and shoulder 

 straps red, buttons yellow. The helmets as for the troops of the line, but 

 the guard and horse artillery have horse-hair plumes. The saddle for the 

 light artillery is Hungarian, for the field artillery, German ; caparison dark 



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