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seems admirably adapted for developing the necessary initiative of the 
battery leader and the equally necessary control of the Brigade Division 
Commander. 
The following would seem to be a summary of the conclusions already 
arrived at:— 
(a.) The battery of six guns is the tactical unit of Horse and 
Field Artillery, meaning by that expression that it con¬ 
tains the largest number of guns (with their attendant 
ammunition wagons) which can be normally led by the 
hand and voice of one commander. The battery is never 
divided, and is commanded as a whole unit by its own 
leader both in and out of action. 
(b.) The Brigade Division is the next tactical organisation above 
the battery, and consists normally of three batteries (Horse 
Artillery usually two) brigaded together under one com¬ 
mander. The functions of a Brigade Division Commander 
are those appertaining to a Brigadier. He exercises his 
command through the battery leaders. He directs the 
tactical leading of the batteries, and controls their com¬ 
bined fire, leaving the detailed execution of his orders to 
the Battery Commanders. Batteries fight in Brigade 
Divisions; their isolated action is exceptional. 
(c.) The tactical organisation above the Brigade Division depends 
on the number of units that can be placed in the field. 
Superior Commanders will always direct massed batteries 
of artillery through their Brigade Division Commanders, 
leaving them and their battery leaders to execute all 
orders received, according to the organisation and system 
of command described in paragraphs (a.) and ( b .) of the 
foregoing summary. 
PAB'f III. 
System of Training. 
“ All evolutions which are not necessary for the object of artillery in war ought 
to be abolished, in order to save time, which may be employed in practising care¬ 
fully and exactly all the other instructions contained in the -Regulations .” 1 2 
The system of training massed batteries depends upon the objects 
sought for. It will be necessary, therefore, to consider these objects at 
some length, and during the investigation the best system for achiev¬ 
ing these objects will be made clear. 
The training of the battery comes first. 3 How this should be carried 
out was dealt with in the four papers which were written for the Prize 
1 £: Letters on Artillery,” by Prince Kraft zu Holienlohe Ingelfingen, translated from the German 
by Major N. L. "Walford, It. A. 
2 “ Training without and with guns is completed within the battery. In the Brigade Division 
the co-operation of several batteries for a common tactical purpose is to be practised.” “Drill 
Regulations of the German Field Artillery,” 1892, 
Summary of 
conclu¬ 
sions already 
arrived at. 
The system 
of training 
depends on 
the objects 
sought for. 
The first 
necessity is 
to train the 
battery. 
