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100 States

Regiments of Infantry

Regiments of Cavalry

Regiments of Artillery

Battalions of Engineers and Train

Prussia.

Saxony.

Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Oldenburg

Brunswick

Saxe-Weimar. .

Anhalt.

Saxe-Meiningen and Coburg-Gotha.

Saxe-Altenburg, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Reuss-Schleiz, and Reuss-Grez

Contingent of Hesse

97 9 2 1

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4

64 6 2 1 1

2

22 2

1 1

24 2

Total. .

118

76

26

26

The armed forces of the states not included in this list, namely, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Waldeck, Lippe-Detmold, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen, are, by special treaties, incorporated with the Prussian army.

The total strength of the army of the North-German Confederation amounted, in June 1870, to 319,358 men on the peace-footing, and to 977,262 men on the war-footing, as follows: —

Field troops, privates and non-commissioned

Depots, ditto ......

Garrison troops, ditto .....

Officers, staff, and military schools

Total .....

Peace-footing

War-footing

287,481

13,046 18,831

511,826

180,672

265,082

19,682

319,358

977,262

The army of the Confederation was commanded by 1 field-marshal, 1 field-zeugmeister, 41 generals, 70 lieutenant-generals, 92 major-generals, and 232 colonels. For further details regarding the army, see the next article, 'Prussia,' pp. 121-23.

2. Navy.

The formation of a German navy, due to the initiative of Prussia, dates from 1848, and rapid progress has been made in it for the last few years. According to documents laid before the Reichstag in the session of 1870, the fleet of war of the Empire consisted, in June 1870, of the following steamers and sailing vessels : —