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canister, both fixed, according to General von Strotha. 1 There were six 
draught horses and three drivers for each gun, and the detachment con¬ 
sisted of seven or eight mounted gunners, one of whom acted as horse- 
holder. The riding horses of both teams and detachments carried dragoon 
saddles, behind which were fastened a corn-sack, a forage-cord, a bundle 
of hay, and a picketing-peg—an arrangement which made mounting and 
dismounting most serious operations, not lightly to be undertaken. The 
off-horses of the teams carried pads, and the officers and men were dressed 
much the same as the rest of the artillery. Each division of the battery was 
commanded by an under-officer, and the whole by an officer. A wagon-master 
and an artificer were responsible for the completeness of the carriages, and the 
drivers and horses were entrusted to the care of a commissary of horse. As 
the said commissary was generally some debilitated old drunkard (“ halbin* 
valide Trunkenbolde”), and the drivers were selected from the scum of 
the army (“die Proletarier des Heeres”), one can easily understand how 
it happened that the Prussian horse artillery was destroyed in the first two 
great battles in which it took part, Kunersdorf and Maxen. 2 
Fig. l. 
Nothing can be further from the truth than to suppose that the new 
1 “ Die in der Protze mitgefiihrte Munition scheint, wie bei der Fussartillerie, 80 Kugel und 
20 Kart&tsch-Schusse betragen zu haben.”—Von Strotha, p. 3. The author of the “ Ueber reitende 
Art. &c.,” p. 20, mentions 90 rounds as the number carried in the earlier horse artillery. During 
the wars of the French Empire the number had decreased to 60. The English then carried 40. 
“ Die Englander fuhren etwa 40 Schuss auf der Protze ; wir wollen eine Mittelzahl annehmen und 
50 sagen.” 
2 For the particulars of Frederick’s first horse battery, see Von Strotha, pp. 1-3, 577-599; 
von Troschke, p. 36 et seq.; and Seyfarth’s inaccurate description in his £c Leben und Regierungs 
Geschichte Friedrich des Andern,” Vol. II. p. 543. 
Fig. 1 is a sketch of Frederick’s horse artillery, from “ Die Soldaten Friedrichs des Grossen,” 
von E. Lange, p. 320; 
I have to thank Lieuts. Place, Costobadie, and Craufurd, R.A., for the willing assistance they 
gave me in translating my German authorities. To Lieut. Lorraine, R.H.A., I am under very 
great obligations, for his never-failing help and advice; 
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