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Rh as sites for batteries to protect Woolwich against the in vading Dutch fleet, although in 16G4 mention is made ol storehouses, &c., and sheds for repairing ship carriages. In 1G68 guns, carriages, and stores were concentrated at Woolwich, and in 1695 the laboratory establishment wa moved from Greenwich to the former place. Prior to 1716 ordnance was obtained from private manufacturers, and proved by the Board of Ordnance. In 1716 a dan gerous explosion took place at the Moorfields Foundry, and it was decided to build a royal brass foundry at the Tower Place, Woolwich. Founders were advertised for, and the records of those times show that Mr Andrew Schalch of Douay was selected. The popular story of Schalch s fore seeing the explosion, and being afterwards commissioned to search for a site and build a foundry is completely dis proved by Lieut. Grover. The original Tower Place con sisted of 42 acres only, while the present Royal Arsenal occupies 333 acres. In 1741 an academy or school for instructing the people of the military branch of the ordnance was established at the Warren. It was not till 1805 that the collection of establishments, consisting of a foundry, laboratory, repository, tc., and stores, became the Royal Arsenal. Having thus glanced at the history of the arsenal, we shall now endeavour to describe the various manu facturing establishments concentrated at Woolwich, and those at Enfield and Waltham.

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There are no arsenals, properly so called, in the British colonies. The troops are supplied from stores and work shops in charge of the Control Department. In India the