4 
Animals. 
Batteries 
OF 6 GUNS WITH 
OF 4 GUNS 
2 Sections 
3 Sections 
Officers horses ... 
6 
6 
5 
Troop ,, ... . 
10 
10 
8 
Pack mules. 
70 
72 
51 
The battery also carries its own medical and veterinary stores, clothing and 
necessaries, material for repairs, etc., etc., and is very complete. 
All the stores of every kind as carried by the Mountain Artillery are given in 
the tables in the book to the very smallest detail. 
Ammunition. 
A 6-gun battery in 3 sections carries 144 segment shells, 180 shrapnel, 36 case, 
360 cartridges, 36 empty cartridge bags, 450 friction tubes, 158 percussion and 
180 time fuzes. 
Other chapters treat of the care of material and the hygiene of personnel and 
animals, a most important item. The question of grooming, feeding and watering, 
also shoeing of the mules is treated of and many valuable hints, which the author 
has gained from long experience, are given. 
The last chapter treats of special points which the captain of a battery has to 
bear in mind and these are classed under 3 heads. 
(1) To keep every item in his equipment in a perfect state of readiness for 
immediate service. 
(2) To keep his animals sound and fit; they should be ready at any moment 
to start in a campaign. 
(3) . To pay the greatest attention to the hygiene of his men, so that they may 
always be ready and capable of enduring fatigue without suffering in 
health. 
The precautions necessary before starting on a march are then dealt with at 
some length and the author’s remarks are all valuable, also are those on the 
subjects for rapidity of marching and duties in action. 
The book ends with an appendix in which is given the results of the experiments 
made in 1894 in various patterns of pack-saddles and the conclusions arrived at 
by the committee. 
* Though a work of this kind may contain nothing which is absolutely new, and 
officers may be inclined to say that it is merely a collection of truisms which are 
the basis of every book of instruction or of regulations for Mountain Artillery, 
still then, truisms cannot be too frequently impressed on everyone who has to do 
with this important branch of artillery work. Moreover, if a book like this is 
perused by those who are interested in the details of Mountain Artillery, they are 
bound to find food for reflection when they compare the details of a Spanish 
battery with those of their own and it is quite possible that out of the experience 
of a man like the author of this work who has devoted the best part of his life to 
Mountain Artillery and who may be justly looked on as a specialist for that service, 
the reader may glean several practical and useful hints which may be of good 
service to him. The title of the book is— 
"Apuntes sobre la Artilleria de Montana,” por el Coronet D. Manuel Salazar 
Barcelona, Imprenta Militar, Ancha, 58. and its cost is very trifling. 
