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German battalions, the French army had the greater proportion of guns. 
The British battalion being of the same strength with the German, and it 
being advisable to give a large proportion of artillery to a small army, there 
should be eight batteries to a British division of thirteen battalions and 
four squadrons, besides the artillery attached to cavalry. 
III. 
It begins to be admitted that the distinction made between divisional and 
corps or reserve artillery is simply arbitrary. A corps, or a division, may 
be held in reserve; but when troops are to go into first line all their 
artillery should go with them, the whole of the guns preceding the mass of 
the infantry. 
Against the present system of attaching artillery, and of directing the 
operations of artillery in the field through the medium of a commanding 
officer of artillery who remains near the person of the General, there are 
certain grave objections. The most important of these is that the system is 
not the best calculated to provide for the most effectual use of the arm in 
battle. It would be better to make all artillery divisional, and to brigade 
the artillery as the third brigade of the division. 
IV. 
The artillery brigade of a division should consist of two horse and six field 
batteries. The brigade should be commanded by a Major-General or a 
Brigadier-General. The commander of the artillery brigade should be with 
his brigade, and not on the general staff of the division. The commander 
of the artillery brigade should be eligible for division command. 
The present system of directing artillery in the field has been continued 
down from times when there were few guns with an army, and they could 
hardly be moved, and the firing of cannon was connected in the general 
mind with some vague idea of science. It is true that an artillery officer 
may soar into high mathematics perhaps with profit to his arm, and that 
artillery has its minor tactics with which the infantry or cavalry General 
cannot be very familiar; but it is also true that every general officer in 
command ought to be capable of giving general orders for artillery in 
quarters, and in the field, and in battle. In reality, artillery is not now 
protected by the lightest veil of mystery; no officer of high rank is at all 
afraid of touching artillery. At present the Division General himself com¬ 
mands his artillery, not as he commands his infantry brigades, but as a 
Brigadier commands his battalions. It is as if an officer could properly 
command artillery when he had at the same time other more important 
things to think of; it is as if a brigade commander on taking over the 
command of the division were not to relinquish the command of his brigade. 
V. 
Besides the artillery brigades of divisions there would be only the artillery 
attached to cavalry. Cavalry without artillery must give way to cavalry 
with artillery, as was proved at Beaugenqy, five days before Sedan. On the 
