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to move forward, unlimber, come into action, and obtain tbe range 
under tbe fire of opponents who had been some time in position and 
had guaged the distance accurately, we may well be astonished at the 
pluck and skill of the man who led them. 1 
And this feat, which we gladly insert amid achievements on a larger 
scale, was accomplished by a man without previous teaching beyond 
that of the schools. 
The Chilian Civil War of 1891. 
The incidents of another war of quite recent date, although the 
knowledge of modern tactics displayed by one side at least was deplor¬ 
able, are not completely, however, without encouragement for artillery¬ 
men. 
The records of the Chilian Civil War of 1891 will scarcely add much 
to our military knowledge. They are chiefly interesting because of the 
object lesson supplied by them with reference to the Mannlicher 
magazine rifle, and the risk of a vast amount of ammunition being 
wasted by men not thoroughly under control, was well illustrated. 
There are two brilliant and successful charges of cavalry also to be 
noted, which will give encouragement for the future to admirers of the 
arme blanche . 
The Constitutionalists further utilised the services of a battery of 
Krupp field guns of the modern pattern, and the effect of its fire is 
stated to have been most marked, 2 a most satisfactory result when it is 
considered how comparatively untrained were the gunners who formed 
its detachments. 
The German artillery likewise take particular pride in pointing out that 
the man who was really responsible 3 for the success of the raw army 
which overthrew the tyrant Balmaceda, was Colonel Emilius Korner, 
who had been a German artillery officer, and was until 1885 Instructor 
in Artillery at the Artillery and Engineer School at Berlin, a position 
which he quitted to become Professor of Artillery, and subsequently 
Assistant Director of Military Education at Yalparaiso. 
Conclusion. 
Having thus brought our brief narrative of the achievements of 
Field Artillery up to the present time, we may perhaps, ere we lay 
down the pen, be allowed a few observations in conclusion as to what 
the days to come may have in store for us. What lessons does the past 
enforce, and whither, if we read them rightly, are the signs of the future 
directing us ? Will an arm which has been turned to such good 
account by the great soldiers in bygone years prove an incumbrance or 
a mighty weapon in the grasp of coming leaders, is a hail of musketry 
1 The Bulgarian guns were Krupps, of the 1878 model, firing a shell slightly heavier than that of 
our 12-pr. Colonel O’Callaghan says we may be assured that the armament of the Servians was 
similar. 
2 “ Die Militarisehen Ereignisse wahrend des Chilenischen Burger Krieges un Jahre, 1891.” A 
pamphlet by Captain Schaumann of the German Army. 
3 It was not thought politically desirable that a national movement should be directed by a 
foreigner, and therefore Colonel Korner veiled his personality behind that of General Canto, 
and figured officially as a mere secretary to him. 
