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MINUTES OF PliOCEEDINGS OF 
Tlie failure in tlie meclianism of the pieces. Count Thtirheim accounts 
for by saying that they had been rapidly constructed, and had not been 
subjected to the necessary proofs before being issued. However this 
may be, there can be little doubt—both from the general tenor of 
Count Thurheinds report, and from the fact that the Revolver-cannons 
were at a later period of the war sent back into Germany—that the 
experiment may be regarded as a failure. Count Thtirheim admits 
that the division of two guns under his own immediate command was 
singularly favoured by circumstances, and that the fire of the French 
infantry to which he was opposed was so wild as to be of little injury. 
Further, it is clear that the practice. of the battery of artillery which 
Count Thtirheim claims to have caused to retreat must have been 
exceptionally bad, since, after being in action for 1\ hours with 36 men 
and 32 horses, the Bavarian loss, both on account of infantry and 
artillery fire, amounted only to 1 officer, 1 non-commissioned officer, 
and 6 horses wounded, none of the horses being so severely wounded 
as to be placed hors de combat . 
Topographical and Statistical Department 
op the "War Office, 
April 6, 1871. 
