78 NOTES ON GERMAN MANG@UVRES. 
A detailed account of the scheme of each day’s manceuvring would 
not be interesting, unless described by some one thoroughly posted in 
all the arrangements connected with the work of the manceuvres, but 
I will venture to give a short account of the final day but one, as from 
a gunner’s point of view, the episodes were then decidedly instructive. 
On the previous night the head-quarters of the First Division of the 
Corps of Guards was at Frankfurt, with the object of attacking the 
Second Division of the same corps, who were believed to be about 
twenty miles to the north, in the neighbourhood of Miincheberg, a 
station on the line of railway from Berlin to Ciistrin. The First 
Division moved off at seven o’clock, two cavalry regiments, the Gardes 
du Corps and Garde Ciirassiere covering the right front. After hard 
marching for three hours news was sent in by the cavalry that they had 
found the enemy towards the right, and the six batteries of the division 
were at once ordered to the front. The batteries moved forward at a 
trot for about three miles, when they were halted on a bye-road under 
the cover of a long low hill. In this position the batteries made their 
final preparations for action, while the General and the staff officers of 
artillery were selecting suitable sites on which the batteries might come 
into action, should the enemy appear in force from the expected direc- 
tion. The ground to the front was of an undulating nature, but clear of 
woods, and as the General and his staff examined the ground to their 
front and right, they were far from expecting an attack of cavalry from 
the left. Suddenly there was a hurried movement among the staff, and 
orderlies gallopped in all haste towards the batteries which were on 
the road, but before the orderlies could reach the batteries, the General 
and his staff were seen also to leave their position and hurry towards 
the rear. Directly afterwards, almost before the six batteries could 
come into action, fifteen squadrons of cavalry appeared over the ridge 
which the General had just vacated, and in another moment were 
charging towards the batteries which were now in action about seven 
hundred yards distant from the top of the ridge. The guns were 
rapidly served, but one minute was all the time that was required for 
the cavalry to cross the intervening space, and even with case shot the 
number of rounds fired before the cavalry reached the line of guns was 
comparatively few, certainly not sufficient to have checked an attack of 
fifteen squadrons numbering about two thousand sabres. A more per- 
fect example of how the entire artillery of a division may be surprised 
and captured was impossible, and it showed the necessity of artillery 
being always prepared for an attack of cavalry, even when least 
expected, and of shrapnel being carried with fuzes fixed and set ata 
short division. 
The umpires at once decided that, considering the short space which 
the cavalry had to cross, the six batteries must have been captured, and 
they were accordingly put out of action. The interest in the movement 
was yet far from ended, for while the gunners were standing by looking 
dejected at the umpire’s decision, and the victorious cavalry were slowly 
reforming their somewhat shattered ranks, suddenly two more regi- 
ments of cavalry, the Gardes du Corps and the Garde Ciirassiere, who 
had been covering the right front, appeared on the scene. The 
