THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
341 
AUSTRIAN MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY* 
TEANSLATED EEOM 
THE GERMAN. 
BY HENRI HAMILTON MAXWELL, 
LIEUT,-COLONEL E.A. AND BEEVET COLONEL. 
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. 
The first edition of the work by the author on the subject of Field and 
Mountain Artillery was published in 1864; that is, shortly after the 
adoption of the present Austrian system of Artillery in 1863. A second 
edition, containing important alterations in materiel , was published in the 
early part of 1868. 
The subject of mountain artillery is a specialty of the arm, the know¬ 
ledge of which is confined to very few British artillerymen. The interest 
in this branch of the profession has of late years been stimulated by the 
Bhootan, Huzara, and Abyssinian campaigns. I confess to have been, 
like most of my brother officers, deplorably ignorant on the theory of the 
subject until within the last few years, when the subject cropped up; and 
of the practice, lam utterly so to the present moment. 
Even with these disadvantages, I have thought that the experience of 
Austria, the Great Power of Europe which has, I believe, the largest moun¬ 
tainous area within its frontiers, might be of interest to British artillerymen 
generally, though introduced to them by one who confessedly has but 
little knowledge of the special branch of the profession treated of. 
I can go so far as to say even with my limited knowledge, that the 
saddling and lading of a mule, so that the animal shall carry his burden 
daily for, say, a month’s march over a mountainous country without 
* By Friedrich Muller, Captain I. and R. Austrian Artillery Staff. Second Edition, Vienna* 
1868. 
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