The French Army.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 31, 18 May 1889, Page 3

The French Army.

According to j Army List, the consists ot coraiTd'arniee aoU \ die.go«errti«ieni?<a^!liiM , y'tlp<tiict I of Paiis. army corps j of the mutlywr nfe divid»»d ] into two each comprising* 1 1 there aw ttirty"-aJ*.hom,e diviajoa* 1 and soventy-Jtwo bVigadeeiof isfan< : j tiy-i Th^ ; l|^^AW' : Ltfotied in Algeria, haa three infantry i divisions, jnot numbered, and ani other jiaibtary division w garrisoned jin Indo-Chioa. > s - These colonial troops;' frirJltWing those-in Tunis?, comprise altogether Bijttwbn infantry brigades, in which total an) include! | the brigades garrisoned at Son-Toy, j Bnc-Ninh, Hue, and Saignn. '• The" infantry consistn of 144 lifgiments of. the Line, be*id»"« eighteen "regional " regiments (Nos. 145' to 162), ns well an thirty battalions of rifles. ' The envalry comprises six indepeudent divisions and ai£ cavalry " inspections " for the toother country aiid one for Algeria. * finch cavalry division and inspection comprise^

three bricadfts;rof two"'i:egiu>entt< each, whikv the division l» R a.fgerip, has mix regiment* of Afrifcjfc' uiuuW ed riitoaand fonr without division into brigade*. There are beside*, of other independent cavalry brigades, six cuirassier, live dragoon, four mounted rifle, and thrflo* fluasar brigodesJ-Vwiiil© arraycom* 1 dsmr prises eighteen" ii to nay, each army- corte dianoses, -for use " with mixed arms,'' or only one cavalry brigade. The total French cavalry conHUts of twelve cuirassier .twenty-eight' dragoon, twenty-one mounted rifle, and twelve hussar regiiuenU, tlesidee the au Afrioan rifle, and foujsuehi regiments, togft&r Pf which sevunty-three are stationed , at home. Of. field artillery there 1 j are nineteen brigades in the uiothe* ' .country and one to Algeria, thd' 1. senljnot yet divided into n>,<<iuteiit«| The*Algerinu artillery consist*, an-. 1 tU ine revision of the ordre de ba- \ of batteries ordered taVre from the mother count-ry, wniifh has together thirty-*».;; htj \ regjmuiitM ufJWd artillery m-t two,

-t~r-nr - . . JSaflßtSaM;i ; '-"> ■ ybllm tb i namIXT - |ii iVft n;| i« "t-Votltv. TMti an- tto engineers and ifclmfn for Algeria, any ninr.- ll.iiu f>rtre** ' artillery. As b -V.»itrii»i; to the :'i my them ahould !• i .!....♦; >iie I ; - -Fifteen council k' wav, coimuitte ■•-, tary goverwjiu- of which one i* in Algeria, ieir» artillery arYicficvr .eotoutiuea, (nee' Ammunition "iunj penies, four fasilit-r and »■{■ pi icuijjj eorrectiooal tioTnjiani. tl»u lit it r ii| Tonquin. -ATS* tl(u infantry Imi-mgif further, faflFrogiitiLMiw ( >t Z i.> o»; four c»f Al, i-m lilies two regiments of the fcWvijjii U •-"" gion, three battalions of African infantry, aj four In li.er correctional. aompani''*, (lie hitter t loented ejcrliiwVily in -;irrfs ..ns ini Algeria. cThft hea<l o. the i-'r ucli army ia, the. Ministry <,t War, which is divided into the 'CSllrinYl, the General Staff, the Oonii»t. >;! r-Geu-orala department, the interior -ter- j viro department, and til.- '-liirjiitiniisr* of tho infantry, cavalry, aptillen - , engineers, aduJiiU"iniUve service, powuer manufactories, utid •bygiufte- ! • Itm :