PRECIS 
AND 
TRAFSLATIOH. 
“RUSSIAN ARTILLERY JOURNAL.” 
THE MILITARY TRAINING OF FIELD ARTILLERY. 
PRECIS BY 
MAJOR E. A. LAMBART, R.A. 
(Continued from No. 7, Vol. XXI). 
The author, in the present section of his article, treats of the new artillery unit, 
which, as it has as yet received no official designation, he elects to call a “group.” 
Tor the sake of convenience I have substituted throughout, the no less unsatis¬ 
factory, but more familiar term, “ brigade-division.”— F.A.L. 
The Brigade-Division. 
By brigade-division is understood, in this article, a body of two or three 8-gun 
batteries, or three 6-gun batteries. 
Each of these has its advantages and disadvantages, considered as the tactical 
unit of field artillery. 
Such a unit, considered in the light of present tactics, must fulfil the following 
conditions:— 
(i.) Fighting Independence, i.e., such power of fire as to enable it to hold a 
given position independently, against frontal attack, in offensive or 
defensive action. 
(ii.) Suitability for command by one man , both in manoeuvring and action, 
(iii.) Divisibility into not less than three fighting units. 
This last condition is required to meet the necessity for the power to concentrate 
or distribute the fire of the tactical unit. Decisive effect from the fire of an artil¬ 
lery unit acting independently, can only be obtained by the concentration of an 
overwhelming number of guns on different points of the enemy’s line. But the 
fire of all the guns of the unit cannot be employed for this purpose, on account of 
the danger of leaving a portion of the enemy’s line unfired at. The unit must, 
therefore, be so composed as to allow of concentration combined with a certain 
degree of distribution at the same time. A proportion of two guns to one, is the 
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