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France. 
Units. 
Artillery of 
an Army 
Corps. 
Russia. 
Units. 
are not attached to the Cavalry Division—generally two, and the 4th 
Abtheilung of the 2nd Regiment. 
Total batteries per Army Corps 23 (21 field and 2 horse). Therefore, 
with 24,000 infantry and 138 gnus in an Army Corps they allow 57 
guns per 1000 infantry. 
Here again we have a brigade as the largest unit—which, as before, 
consists 1 2 of 2 regiments and is commanded by a Major-General, who 
has for his staff 1 orderly officer; 1 Major, chief of the Staff; 3 reserve 
officers attached (2 Captains of 1 Lieutenant or Sub-Lieutenant); 1 
mounted ( garde d’artillerie ); 2 staff clerks (1 Corporal and 1 private); 
6 gunners for escort (1 Corporal-Trumpeter and 5 Horse Artillery 
gunners). 
A regiment is divided into 4 groups of 3 batteries each and is com¬ 
manded by a Colonel. 
A group of 3 batteries is commanded by a Major, who has for his 
staff—’2 Lieutenants or Sub-Lieutenants, 1 Lieutenant for supply 
officer. 
A battery has 6 guns and 9 wagons. 
The 1st Regiment of the Brigade finds the divisional batteries, the 
2nd Regiment the Corps Artillery. 
They are distributed as follows : — 
1st Infantry Division: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Batteries of 1st Regi¬ 
ment. 
2nd Infantry Division: Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Batteries of 1st 
Regiment. 
Corps Artillery: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Batteries of 2nd Regiment; 
10 and 11 Horse Artillery Batteries. 
2nd Regiment: No. 12 Horse Battery is sent to one of the inde¬ 
pendent cavalry divisions, and 7, 8, and 9 Batteries of 2nd Regiment 
are available for reserve formations. 
Staff of Divisional Artillery. The Colonel, or the Lieut.-Colonel 
of the 1st Regiment commands the artillery of the divisions, and has 
for staff 2 Lieutenants, or Sub-Lieutenants. 
Staff of Corps Artillery. The Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of the 
brigade commands the Artillery of the Corps and has a similar staff to 
the above. 
Total batteries to an Army Corps 20, or 120 guns. Infantry in an 
Army Corps about 24,000 and therefore 5 guns per 1000 infantry. 
The Field and Horse Artillery are organised 3 separately. 
A Field Battery Brigade consists of 6 batteries, and is commanded 
by a Major-General, who has 2 officers for his staff: a Brigade Adju¬ 
tant, a Paymaster and Quartermaster. 
The Horse Artillery batteries are not organised by brigades, but 
attached by pairs to the different Cavalry Divisions. 
A field battery consists of 8 guns, and the heavy have 16, the light, 
12 ammunition wagons. Half the Battery Commanders are Colonels 
and the other half Lieut.-Colonels, the other officers are 2 Captains and 
3 Lieutenants. Total 6. 
1 Vide u Aide Memoire de Vofficier d’etat Major en camjpagne.” 
2 Vide “ Armed Strength, of Russia,” p. 8f. 
