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Battery Drill. 
8-gun battery divided into two % batteries and four sections, viz.: — 
Eight flank section. | Eight centre section. 
Left „ „ | Left „ ,, 
6-gun battery divided in three sections, viz. :— 
Eight flank section. | Centre section. 
Left „ „ | 
Sub-divisions, sections, •§• batteries, are numbered from the right in line and 
keep these numbers when in any column. 
Three trumpeters per 8-gun battery, two per 6-gun, always accompany Battery 
Commander. 
General Rules. 
Battery Commander 25 paces in front of lead horses when advancing, but 
always in rear when retiring in line or column. 
Intervals between sections 22 paces, but sub-divisions of sections may reduce 
intervals to 10 or 5 paces, making section intervals 34 or 39. 
Section Commanders one pace in front of lead horses in line or column. Dis¬ 
tances between sections in column 4 paces. 
In action Battery Commander has no fixed position. 
Section Commanders 4 paces from line of trail, but may move about. 
Ammunition wagons when in action are either in rear of odd sub-divisions, 
facing to the rear, or in centre of sections facing the front. 
When manoeuvring, wagons follow in rear of right flank in single columns—in 
Field Batteries at 115 yards’ distance. In Horse Artillery at 140 yards’ distance, 
but advance into action in line. 
Drill Movements. 
The following movements are laid down for a battery :— 
1. —Direct advance and retirement at the various intervals. 
2. —Increase or reduction of intervals. 
3. —Change of direction. 
(a.) By the wheel about of sub-divisions. 
(A) By the wheel about of sections. 
(c.) By the wheel about of the battery. 
( d .) By the wheel of the battery right or left. 
(i e .) By the wheel of the battery right or left shoulders. 
(/.) By the change of direction of a directing sub-division, the others con¬ 
forming. 
{g) By following the Battery Commander, who changes his direction. 
(/.) is carried out by the words of command, “No. — gun, lead on such and 
such an object. Dress by No. — gun. March.” 
In ( ( g .) the Battery Commander simply gives “ Take direction from me.” 
4. —Deploying and forming line from column of sub-divisions, or section and 
vice versa. 
5. —Oblique movements in line. In these the full interval is reduced to 16 
paces and the close interval to 3 paces. 
