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“REVUE D’ARTILLERIE.” 
NEW RUSSIAN REGULATIONS REGARDING THE 
TACTICS AND FIRE DISCIPLINE OF THE 
BRIGADE DIVISION. 
BY 
LIEUTENANT A. W. TAYLOR, B&.H.A. 
Tue Russian artillery has only been organised into brigade divisions since the 
beginning of the year 1895. ‘Till then no brigade divisions were permanently 
constituted and the command of any collection of batteries which chanced to be 
together during an action devolved upon the senior battery commander. 
As it was found that the orders for drill and fire discipline did not adequately 
satisfy the demands of the new organisation, the Russian artillery committee has 
lately issued two sets of regulations, called schemes, which have at once come into 
force. These do not appear to be applicable to batteries of Horse artillery, which 
consist of six guns and twelve wagons, as against eight guns and sixteen wagons in 
heavy Field batteries and eight guns and twelve wagons in light Field batteries. 
The brigade division consists of two or three batteries under the command of a 
Colonel, the brigade under the command of a Major-General consists of six 
batteries. It will be seen that the subdivision of the battery into two units when 
in action, one consisting of the gun line and first line of wagons and the other of 
the rest of the wagons, spare men and horses, etc.,is the most important 
innovation. Thus, in action, the last-named units of all the batteries of a brigade 
division are collected under the command of an officer who is responsible only 
f to the brigade division commander, and battery commanders have no authority 
over the wagons of their batteries except over the first line of wagons which 
form an integral part of the gun line. Below is given a résumé of the principal 
paragraphs of these two documents :— 
Scheme for regulating the maneeuvring of brigade divisions. 
(1.) To the brigade division commander are attached: 
One Lneutenant, 
Note.—This officer and the trumpeter mentioned later form part of the staff of 
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