MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
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The troops formed in Magdala at sunset; the Port was occupied by the 
2nd Brigade, the 1st Brigade returning to camp. 
Befering to the artillery operations of the day, 100 rounds were fired by 
the 12-pr. Armstrongs, at a range of 2400 yards. 
Many of the shells fell short in the first instance, and the elevation was 
subsequently increased. 
The mortars had been delayed on the hill by a jam in the road (the 12-prs. 
being shifted from draught and mounted on elephants) and did not succeed 
in getting to a position from which their fire was very effective. 
The Naval Brigade were out of range. 
Beturn of ammunition expended on the 13th - 
C. S. 
D.S. 
S. S. 
E.T.F. 
C. Percn. 
10" F. 
15" F. 
Rocket. 
IronC. 
G/14th R.A. 
32 
— 
74 
26 
68 
— 
— 
— 
38 
“A” Mortar Battery . 
94 
15 
— 
— 
— 
105 
17 
10 
— 
“B” Mortar Battery . 
Detachment 5/25th R.A. 
91 
— 
■— 
— 
103 
■ 
11 
— 
two 8-in. mortars . 
11 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
Total 
228 
1 15 
74 
26 
68 
208 
17 
21 
38 
In the affair at Arogee on the 10th— 
c. s. 
“A” Mortar Battery fired . 55 
10" F. 
58 
Shrapnel. S. Case. Rockets. 
55 2 15 
5" F. 
55 
whilst the Naval Brigade expended 23 rockets per tube, having 12 tubes. 
The good effect of the shell fired from the steel guns on both occasions, 
admits of no doubt; the fuzes were excellent, burning with great 
regularity. 
The wooden mortar bed introduced at Zulla was used at Magdala in 
firing double shell, and found incapable of standing a discharge with a 
larger charge than 3 oz. 
Thus far good fortune had attended our steps and yet, had not the period 
during which it was necessary for us to remain in occupation of the camp 
below Magdala, before its final destruction on the 17th, been happily 
limited, we might, even then, have suffered a disaster; for already the 
scarcity of water, and bad provisions had increased our sick list, and, notwith¬ 
standing the few men wounded in the operations, our means of carriage was 
so small that our return march might have been accomplished with much 
difficulty, and our reaching the coast in time to embark before the rains set 
in, have been prevented. 
On the 18th of April the Beshilo was re-crossed, and three days were 
spent on the Talanta Plain in re-organizing our Transport and Commissariat. 
The following order was read to the troops assembled on a general parade, 
on the 21st April, 1868, 
