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.'
