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EXTRACTS 
FROM THE 
“MEMORIAL BE ARTXLLERXA," 
TRANSLATED BY 
CAPTAIN J. C. DALTON, R.A. 
The February number of tbe “ Memorial de Artillena opens with a 
minute description of the Portuguese Artillery. 
The service is governed and constituted much the same as in Spain. 
Tables are given showing the exact composition of regiments of 
Garrison, Mountain, and Field Artillery, both on a peace and war 
footing. 
The guns used by the Field Artillery are 9 cm steel Krupp guns with 
Broadwell ring, and, by the Mountain Artillery, rifled 8 cm short bronze 
guns on the French system. 
The 9 cm gun weighs about 9J cwt., and with its carriage, about 
351 cwt., with limber and 5 gunners on it 40 cwt., which gives about 
7 cwt. to each mule. On a war footing a Field Battery has 6 guns 
and 6 wagons, 3 G. S. wagons and 1 forge. 
The Mountain Batteries are armed with 8 cm M. L. bronze guns. 
It describes further the ammunition carried, the system of recruiting, 
nature of the animals (horse and mule) and regulation height, the 
uniform, &c. 
The carbine in use is a Minie converted into B. L. Snider-Burnett. 
The officers are armed with six chambered revolvers on Abaddie 
system. 
The pay of the different ranks is given, that of a Captain looks 
very imposing on paper, viz., 55,000 Beis per month, or about £11 10s. 
For the practical instruction of the regiments of Artillery, and to conduct 
experiments, &c., the Corps possesses a camp near Veudas-Novas in the 
province of Alentejo, which is reached by rail from Lisbon. This 
camp is officered by a permanent staff, and, to a certain degree, 
corresponds to our Shoeburyness. The different artillery regiments 
all take a turn at this camp. There is a laboratory and workshops, 
topographical department, &c. The troops while undergoing their 
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