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Elements of Military Art and Science

CHAPTER XII
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Moreover, in our service a portion of these duties of engineer and artillery trains is performed by the quartermaster's department.

For those who wish to know the exact organization of the French engineer train, we give it as it existed in 1811, viz.:--seven troops, each troop consisting of three officers, one hundred and forty-one non-commissioned officers and privates, two hundred and fifty horses, and fifty wagons, conveying five thousand two hundred and seventy intrenching tools, one thousand seven hundred cutting tools, one thousand eight hundred and two artificers' tools, two hundred and fifty-three miners' tools, and eight thousand three hundred and eighteen kilogrammes' weight of machinery and stores, each article being made to a particular pattern.

The pioneers in Spain acted sometimes with one arm and sometimes with the other, and we have assigned them accordingly in the table.

The pontoniers, however, in our service are included with the engineers; we have therefore put them, in our table, in the same column with the engineers.
_____________________________________________________________________ | Engineer |Artillery staff,| Total | Total of |staff, sappers,| horse and foot | of | artillery | miners, | artillery, |engineers, |staff, horse | pontoniers, | ouvriers, and | sappers, | and foot |and pioneers.

| pioneers.


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