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no reliable conclusion can be drawn as to this maximum from the 
average number of rounds per gun given in “ The German Artillery.” 
As I pointed out in the note appended to that paper, “in many 
iu stances the number of rounds fired was much less, and in others con¬ 
siderably more, than the average.” In order that no misapprehension 
whatever may exist on this point, I shall give the maximum and the 
minimum number of rounds fired by some of the German batteries 
during 1870-71. My figures are taken, partly from the “Die Deutsche 
Artillerie in den Schlachten bei Metz,” von Hoffbauer, Part I. 
pp. 51-52, Part II. pp. 111-13; and partly from the “Beiheft zum 
Militair-Wochenblatt,” 1872, Zehntes Heft, pp. 319-51. 
Wissemburg. 
The total average was 15'5 rounds per gun. 
No. 1 Light Field Battery, 5th Regt., Lower Schleswig Field Artillery, fired 
33*3 rounds per gun. No. 3 Horse Artillery Battery, 11th Regt., Hessian Field 
Artillery, fired 5 rounds per gun. 
Worth . 
The total average was 42‘6 rounds per gun. 
No. 3 Horse Artillery Battery, 5th Regt., Lower Schleswig Field Artillery, fired 
112*6 rounds per gun; and 6th Light Field Battery of the same regiment fired 
202*1 rounds per gun. No. 1 Horse Artillery Battery, 2nd Bavarian Field Artil¬ 
lery, fired 5 rounds per gun. 
Spicheren. 
The total average was 30*4 rounds per gun. 
No. 1 Light Field Battery, 7th Regt., Westphalian Field Artillery, fired 
85 rounds per gun. No. 4 Light Field Battery, 1st East Prussian Field Artillery, 
fired 3 rounds per gun. 
The total average was 20*7 rounds per gun. 
No. 6 Light Field Battery, 1st East Prussian Field Artillery, fired 52*5 rounds 
per gun. No. 2 Heavy Field Battery, 9th Schleswig-Holstein Field Artillery, 
fired 4*3 rounds per gun. 
Mars-la-Tour. 
The total average was 94 rounds per gun. 
No. 2 Light Field Battery, 3rd Brandenburg Field Artillery, fired 230 rounds 
per gun; No. 3 Horse Artillery Battery of the same regiment fired 191 rounds 
per gun; No. 2 Heavy Field Battery of the same regiment fired 180 rounds per 
gun; and No. 1 Horse Artillery Battery, 10th Hanoverian Field Artillery, fired 
175 rounds per gun. 
On the other hand, No; 2 Heavy Field Battery, Grand Ducal Hessian Artillery 
Corps, fired 6*3 rounds per gun; and No. 1 Light Field Battery of the same regi¬ 
ment fired 11*1 rounds per gun. 
