ARTILLERY

heavy guns of all kinds, als, | together with the machinery and stores ieal | connected with them; also that branch tea,| of the army whose duty it is to servo pall |} the heavy guns. The most powerful tes,| British gun at present is the 12-inch res, | naval gun, in the construction of which oal.| 122 miles of wire ribbon is used to ige | give it strength and elasticity. It can y of | throw its projectile, weighing 850 pounds, The | nearly 20 miles, or cause it to penctrate = = inches of eos ge yards. The nid, | lightest gun use = eye oO The g the to man the various fortre es for coast ecr,| defence, and to work guns of heavy jcaltbre used in eleges. Horse artillery ma- | and field artillery accompany the cavalry The end infantry into the field, and preed-|paro the way for their advance or ‘om | cover their retreat. They are divided into batteries, each armed with 6 twelve on, | or fifteen-pounders. The E desidthe | erata in the construction these guns ists| have been lightne combined with -- strength; bat — of —— x firing a weighing | fod baving an effective range of 12,000 _ of | yards, and the Tersc be the Boer heavy | pieces, pointed to need of other orm | qualities, and this branch of the service ere |is being rearmed with improved quick by | fring guns, of greater rangé, and Otted ous | with non-recoiling prog ly iter| AR’UNDEL, « #mall Su ex, t a | four miles fro in the mouth of the Aran, the | The castle is the residence of the Duke of val. | [s. 53]