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 FRANCE.

Artillery.

6 regiments of Foot Artillery ")

16 „ Horse Artillery /

2 „ Artificers

3 „ Train Artillery.

2 „ Armourers and Gunmakers

32,850

1.639

3,709 1.684

Total 29 regiments of Artillery, 16,646 horses, with 39,882 men, 1,362 guns.

The regular army was completed by several regiments of engi- neers, by the gendarmerie, and the troops of the administration. The latter consisted of 1,174 staff-officers; 819 chaplains, surgeons, and apothecaries ; 370 veterinary surgeons ; five companies of mechanics and engineers; 2,575 officers and privates of the Invalides; 2,480 officers and pupils of the military schools; 2,894 men of the Garde de Paris; 1,298 Pompiers, and various other troops, amounting altogether to 15,066 men, with 5,442 horses, on the peace-footing, and 33,365 men, with 12,000 horses, on the war-footing.

Summary of the French Army

Pefice-footing

War-footing

Men

Horses

Men

Horses

Staff ....

1,773

160

1,841

200

Infantry ....

252,652

324

515,937

450

Cavalry ....

62,798

48,143

100,221

65,000

Artillery ....

39,882

16,646

66,132

49,838

Engineers •.

7,4S6

884

15,443

1,400

Gendarmes

24.535

14,769

25,688

15,000

Troops of the Administration Total

15,066

5,442

33,365

12,000

404,192

86,368

757.727

143,238

The effective force of the regular army, at the commencement of 1870, amounted, according to a report of the Minister of War, to 334,280 men, with 85,700 horses. Not counting as effective were 114,431 men on furlough, including whom the standing army Avas represented by 378,852 combatants stationed at home, 5,328 in Italy, and 64,531 in Algeria. The Army of Reserve numbered 198,546, and the National Guard Mobile 381,723 at the commence- ment of 1870.

The staff of the French army was composed of 9 field-marshals ; 170 generals of division, of whom 80 in the reserve ; 340 generals of brigade, of whom 180 in the reserve; 1,251 staff majors, of whom 352 in the reserve, and 75 military interpreters. By a mili- tary law, strictly enforced, all general officers must retire from active service at the age of sixty-six, the only exception made being in favour of generals who ' have commanded in face of an enemy.'