Number of Carriages. DETAIL OF A 6-POUNDER BATTERY, ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY.-HOME ESTABLISHMENT. 4 6-Pounder Guns 4242111 12-Pounder Howitzers. 4 Gun Ammunition Waggons Howitzer Ammunition Waggons 6-Pounder Rocket Carriage : Store Limber Waggon Forge Store Cart Hospital Cart 1 Light Forage Waggon For 2 Staff Serjeants, 1 Trumpeter, 1 Farrier, and 3 Shoeing Smiths. (Spare Men, Officers' Servants and Bâtmen, &c., and Spare Horses 18 Total Carriages. Total 16 12 44 32 24 56 22 16 12 28 16 16 26843222 26842 18 29 16 8 47 10 68644224 4268644224 Artificers. 7 7 5 8 13 5 2 2 9070 80 70 150 60 90 150 60 25 20 ON THE INTERIOR MANAGEMENT OF A BATTERY. (Vide "Field Battery Exercise.") 1. The greatest care should be paid to the fittings of the saddles, and collars; extensive sore backs, and galled shoulders arise chiefly from neglect on the march: and by prompt attention on the part of the officers, many horses may be preserved to the service, which would otherwise be disabled for months. The drivers should never be suffered to lounge in their saddles, or to sit uneven. blanket under the saddle is found to be the best preventive of sore A folded backs, as it adapts the shape of the saddle to any loss of flesh in the animal; On long marches, the shaft horse should invariably be provided with a half blanket under the pad saddle; every driver should also have attached to his harness a pair of pads of basil leather, about six inches by four, stuffed with hair; and the moment any tenderness is perceived in a horse's shoulder, the pressure should be relieved by placing the pads above and below the tender part. 2. On a march, there will always be an advanced, and rear guard; the advanced guard of one day becoming the rear guard of the next. On arriving on the ground where the battery is to be parked, the advanced guard will immediately pitch their tent, and post sentinels. When the battery quits its ground, the non-commissioned officer of the guard is responsible that nothing be left behind. 3. When a battery is to march, the camp-kettles, and everything that will not be required before morning, should be lashed on the carriages at sunset. 4. In parking guns, the usual interval is ten or twelve on a march; that everything may be better under the eye of the but paces; sentinels, the intervals may be diminished to three or four paces. The guns are to be in the first line, covered by their respective waggons; the spare ammunition, and store carriages in the third line. The tents of the detachment are sometimes on the flanks of the battery, and sometimes in rear of their respective sub-divisions the officers in rear of the battery. The horses are sometimes picketed in rear of the whole, and parallel to the line of guns, and sometimes perpendicular to this line, and on the flanks between the detach ments, tents, and the carriages; but in general, the form of encamping will depend on the nature of the ground, and local circumstances. In every situation the approach to the park, and the road by which guns are brought out, should be kept clear and open. the 5. If the battery is parked in hot weather, the naves of the wheels must be defended as much as possible from the effect of the sun, by sods, or other covering. 6. When a battery arrives in camp, quarters, or cantonments, each non-commissioned officer will immediately examine every part of the carriages of his sub-division, especially the wheels, to the greasing of which he will attend. Any damages, to be repaired without delay, he will report to the officer of his division, who will report to the commander of the battery. 7. When a battery is in stationary quarters, there must be a weekly inspection of every part of the battery, and a parade in marching order, when circumstances will permit; at which parade, every part of the harness and appointments of gunners and drivers is expected to be in the best order. Particular attention should be paid to the state of the ammunition, which should be frequently aired; and no fresh ammunition should ever be received without being gauged to the guns. 8. The drivers must immediately report any loss, or breakage of their harness; and, on the instant, make known to the non-commis sioned officer of the sub-division, any gall, or other hurt which may have happened to the horses committed to their charge: any neglect on this point must be punished. Airing, and beating with a knotted rope the stuffing of the collars and saddles, an important part of the driver's duty, which should never be omitted on continued marches. In camp, greasy heels are the most common disability which horses labour under; and as they proceed from cold, occasioning humours to settle, the best preventive is hand-rubbing, and exercise, to keep up a circulation. 9. Unless for some particular purpose, the elevating screws should never be raised higher than the half of their length; on a march, they should be covered with a piece of canvas, or an old flannel cartridge, which will prevent their being clogged with dirt; and the travelling chain should be always applied. The pintail, and the trail plate eye, should be greased previous to marching. 10. After a field day, or an action, the bores of the guns should be washed, and then laid under metal. 11. If a wheel be so disabled as not to be worth repairing, the nave, if not damaged, should be at any rate saved. If the nave be good, a new wheel can easily be made from materials perhaps found on the spot, but it is very difficult to find a nave. 12. In marching in ordinary circumstances, the officer next for duty will always proceed in advance, to take up quarters, and to choose ground for parking, or encamping on; and the officer on duty for the day will always march in, and bring up the rear. 13. When a battery is to march, and "Boot and saddle" has been sounded, the officer of the day, the non-commissioned officers, drivers, and horses will turn out, and immediately proceed to the park and put-to; if encamped, tents to be struck, and lashed to the carriages. At the sound" Turn out," the whole of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and gunners, repair to the park; and when the usual inspections have been made, and the regular reports delivered to the commander, the battery will be marched off. 14. Feeding will always take place three times a day at the park, under the inspection of the officer of the day; when the nose-bags have been filled by the non-commissioned officer in charge of the forage, the trumpeter is to sound "Feed," the nose-bags are put on, |