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A half waggon and a half mule with the army park : altogether 13 
(11+2) rounds per man. A half waggon or 22 rounds on requisitioned 
carriages or in a depot within the enceinte o£ the army, at one or two 
days* march. This ammunition will be in boxes. Another estimate 
of a half waggon in boxes, but not on carriages. Thus each battalion 
will have :— 
A waggon and a half and 6 mules in service order with the corps, 
with the division, or at the army corps park and at the general park. 
One waggon load in boxes within reach of the army. 
That will make 40,000 rounds on waggons and pack-mules in front 
line, 15,000 at a depot. The 40,000 moveable rounds give from 40 to 
50 per man; the 15,000 depot rounds give 20 to 25; total, 70 to 75 
rounds a man with the army, 25 rounds at a depot in the second line, 
at less than 5 marches from the army. 
A battalion will thus have 6 mules, of which 3 present with it and 3 
with the artillery, and 2 waggons, of which one and a half would be 
horsed. 
A division of 12 battalions will have 6 waggons and 6 mules with 
it; the same at the army corps park; and the same at the general 
park of the army. Total 18 waggons and 18 mules, and besides there 
will be 36 mules with the battalions and belonging to them. That 
will make 270,000 rounds horsed, 18,000 on park mules, 36,000 on 
the battalion mules, total, 324,000, which for 8000 infantry gives 40 
rounds a man, and the value of 24 waggons at the rear of the army, at 
less than 5 days march. 
We must put then on these carriages 2 waggons per battalion. 
Suppose 80,000 infantry, or 100 battalions, we should require 200 
S.A.A. waggons, of which only 150 horsed, which would only need 750 
horses, without counting rejected ones, and 180 pack-mules, and 360 
belonging to the corps. That makes 1400 horses to carry the cartridges, 
which appears to be the mean. 
EXPLANATIONS. 
The following explanations are from the pen of Captain de Reviers 
de Mauny , a recognized authority on the history of artillery. 
Note A. 
On the composition of the artillery material. 
Since the second half of the 16th century the French artillery have 
only used guns firing shot at 4, 8, 12, 24 or 32 lbs. The drawings of 
these guns, fixed for the first time in 1668, were modified by the order 
of the 7th October 1732 which only preserved the 5 first calibres. 1 
Then, after the Seven Years War and after a series of comparative 
trials carried out by Gribeanval at Strasbourg in 1764, the War 
1 Captain de Mauny omits to state wherein the modification lay. According to the preceding 
paragraph there were only 5 calibres in 1688.—F. E. B. L. 
