THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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Combat of Bapaume, 
3rd January, 1871. 
72 guns: 30 of 9c., and 42 of 8c. 
Guns of 9 c. 
Common shell. Shrapnel. Case. 
778 0 0 
Total: 2201 common shell. 
No. of rounds per gun, 30-6. 
Loss: 3 officers, 34 men, and 97 horses. 
of 8 c. 
Common shell. Shrapnel. Case. 
1423 0 0 
Battle of le Mans, 
llth & 12th January, 1871. 
234 guns: 102 of 9c., and 132 of 8c. 
Guns of 9 c. 
Common shell. Shrapnel. Case. 
2531 0 0 
Guns of 8 c. 
Common shell. Shrapnel. 
3565 0 
Total: 6096 common shell, and 1 case. 
No. of rounds per gun, 26. 
Loss: 14 officers, 110 men, and 145 horses. 
Case. 
1 
Battle of 8. Quentin, 
19th January, 1871. 
161 guns: 66 of 9c., and 95 of 8c. 
Guns of 9 c. 
Common shell. Shrapnel. Case. 
2964 0 2 
Guns of 8 c. 
Common shell. Shrapnel. 
4210 
106 
Total: 7174 common shell, 106 shrapnel, and 2 canister. 
No. of rounds per gun, 45’2. 
Loss: 12 officers, 166 men, and 180 horses. 
Case. 
0 
I have taken the foregoing figures from the “ Revue Militaire de PEtranger,” of the 16th and 
21st November, 1872. The “Revue” translated them from the German of the “Militair- 
Wochenblatt,” to which they had been communicated by two German officers, who compiled 
them from reports furnished them by the kindness of the War Ministers of the different German 
States. Owing to the loss of the reports of a few German batteries, the figures are not absolutely 
correct; but they are a close approximation to the truth. They may be found in the “ Beiheft zum 
Militair-Wochenblatt, 1872, Zehntes Heft,” p. 319. 
Under the term “common shell,” I have included the “obus ordinaire” and the “obus incen* 
diaire.” Very few of the latter were used. 
The use of canister is evidently becoming rarer and rarer. It must be remembered, however, 
that during the war of 1870-71 the Prussians acted almost always on the offensive, the French 
on the defensive. It is probable, therefore, that a larger amount of canister was used by the 
French than by the Germans. 
