185 
MANOEUVRES OE THE XIY GERMAN 
ARMY CORPS, 1897. 
(WITH MAPS)} 
BY 
COLONEL A. E. TURNER, C.B., A.A.G., R.A. 
AS in 1896 the German Emperor most graciously accorded per¬ 
mission to me to attend the manoeuvres of the XIV Army Corps, 
which is composed of Baden troops and has its headquarters at Karls¬ 
ruhe, the capital of Baden. 
It is still commanded by General von Billow, who was Military At¬ 
tache at Paris when the war of 1870-71 broke out ; during the war 
he was on the staff of Priuce Charles Frederic, and was present at 
most of the battles in which the 2nd Army took part; he bears a very 
high reputation both as a soldier and statesman, and when it was 
generally rumoured this summer that Prince Hohenlohe was about to 
resign the Chancellorship of the Empire, there was a consensus of 
public opinion that General von Billow would be appointed by the 
Emperor to succeed him. 
His three general staff officers are Colonel Baron von Vietinghoff, 
Major von Lindenau, and Plauptmann von Winterfielde ; the former 
was aide-de-camp to the late Emperor Frederic, and is a highly accom¬ 
plished staff officer, while Major von Lindeuau who w T as general staff 
officer of the 29th Division last year, and who received special praise 
for his work, is well known as the author of an excellent account of 
the retreat of Napoleon from Moscow, in which the Baden troops 
played such a prominent part at the crossing of the Beresina on the 
26th and 27th November, 1812, when they, with the Saxons and Hes¬ 
sians, formed the rear guard of the “ Grande Armee” whose retreat 
across the river they covered, and then crossed in safety themselves, 
after fighting a victorious action with the Russians at Studienka on 
the left bank. 
The 28th Division, to the staff of which I was attached for the first 
part of the manoeuvres, is commanded by Lieutenant-General von 
Grone, who saw much fighting in the war of 1870-71. His Staff Offi¬ 
cer is Major von Schwerin a descendant of Frederic the Great's Mar¬ 
shal. 
1 The small map is a portion of the large one and is published to give a better idea of the hills 
over which many of the operations were carried out. 
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