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AMMUNITION COLUMNS. 
The section of park consists of one officer, eighty men, fifty-two 
mules and eighteen two-wheeled carts, twenty-four common and 120 
shrapnel shell and six case shot per gun, fourteen shovels, fourteen 
picks, eight choppers, eight light axes, four saws and thirty-six 
torches. 
FRANCE . 
In Algeria the artillery and infantry reserve ammunition is carried 
by ammunition sections attached to the mountain batteries. Including 
the ordinary allowance of battery ammunition, there are with each 
battery one hundred and twenty boxes containing 780 shrapnel and 
60 case shot and thirty-three boxes each containing 1,472 rounds of 
rifle ammunition and three boxes each containing 2,700 rounds of 
pistol ammunition. The total establishment of a battery including its 
ammunition section is 242 officers and men, 17 horses and 140 mules. 
SPAIN. 
An ammunition column constitutes in war an integral part of a regi¬ 
ment of six Mountain batteries. There are three regiments of Mountain 
Artillery, the Corps d'Elite of the Spanish Army. The war strength of 
an ammunition column is :—One captain, three lieutenants, one veterin¬ 
ary surgeon, seven sergeants, sixteen corporals, three trumpeters, one 
farrier, three wheelers, three collar-makers, three shoeing-smiths, 
three hundred and fifty-six gunners and two specialists, 5 officers' and 
18 battery riding horses and 200 loaded mules carrying 144 boxes of 
artillery ammunition and 256 boxes of infantry ammunition. The 
number of rounds carried is 648 of shrapnel, 432 common shell, 72 
case shot and 322,560 Mauser rifle cartridges. There are allotted 
thirty boxes also for the carriage of spare materiel , hospital and veterin¬ 
ary medicines and artificer's spare tools and spare harness. These, with 
six spare saddled and six spare unsaddled mules, brings the total 
number of mules in the column to 221. The Spanish Mountain 
Artillery is the oldest and most efficient in Europe and it was from 
our experience with it in 1837 that our pack saddlery equipment was 
devised in India by officers who had served in Spain at that period. 
THE DUTCH COLONIES. 
For the Dutch colonies in the East Indies, not only the ammunition 
of the mountain batteries, but also the second line of ammunition and 
certain stores and kits of the field batteries are carried on pack 
horses. The column for each battery comprises forty-eight portable 
ammunition boxes containing one hundred and forty-four ring shell, 
ninety-six shrapnel and forty-eight case shot, in charge of one 
European quarter-master sergeant, three native corporals and twenty- 
six native gunners, with one riding and twenty-four pack horses, and, 
with the stores and kits, one sergeant, one corporal and eleven gunners 
in charge of eleven pack horses. 
