The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-05-19
MILITARY POWER OF FRANCE.

The National Intelligencer publishes
summary ola detailed statement, BY Marshal
Valiant, the French Minister Of War, OF the
supplies furnished by France in men aud ma
terial, for carrying on the late war against
Russia. This statement is OF interest still,
sseAhibiting what France can do, should she
embark in another contest.
The whole force sent by France to the
BIayk Sea was sos, 26s soldiers, and 4l,974
horses. At the close Of the war here remain
ed l46,eoo French troops 1T for duty in the
Crimea; $4,000 were killed and missing
$4,000 wounded and SURVIVING; 5000 horses
returned to France.
The great guns were ,s47; lighter artillery.
500 guns more; 100000 oil shells and can
non ballss IL. 900 geo pounds Of gunpowder,
and 81. 1000. 900 Of bali cartridges fur the mus
kets and rifles. Resides, if Sebastopol had
not fallen as il did. France was prepared to
plant against II 400 murtars OF The largest
catbre, with ammunition for twenty days
csntinaed bombardment, and throwing IA
bomb shells per minute, day and night. The
engineers constructed fifty miles Of trench,
ten miles Of which were excayated mostly in
soils rock.
The supply Of food and other necessaries
for the soldiers was enormous. The food
sent from France. besides items Of smaller
quantities. was 50,000,s00 pounds Of biscuit;
10000, 900 pounds Of -four, equal to 100000
barrels; 1000, 900 pounds OF preserved beef;
i2O00, 600 pounds of salt beef and lard; s,
900, 900 pounds OF rice A 500, 600 pounds Of
coffee; 6,G00,000 pounds of sugar; 10000
head Of live cattle; !, 500, 900 gallons Of wine
aud nearly ,000, 900 pounds OF Chullet's pre-.
served vegetables were among the larger items
ofsuppIiss.
The collateral manufactures and OUTLAWS
connected with the above supplies were in
themselves remarkable. For instance, there
were go, 900 chests or barrels for the biscuit
alone; 1.O00,Oo0 Of sacks or bags for the 9TH
er articles.
The horse food presented some large items;
10000, 900 pounds (s5 900 tOns.) Of hay |;
0,OOO, 900 Of pounds 100000 tons oats and
bailey; 1000 tons wood; 10000 tons coal
charcoal and coke-this Of course only for
the army, aud does not include coal for the
steamships. There, were $50 ovens to bake
bread, aud 40 presses TO pack hay. These
items assisted to make up the enormous
weight Of 500 900 tons Of food, fodder and
fuel, repairing 1890 voyages Of ships to carry
them to the East.
The clothing was another branch Of larger
items II supply, comprising garments IN such
hundreds Of thousands that II would be tedl-
ogs 10 enumerate them; but as some clue TO
the matter. the number ranged from 100000
10 $50 900 for each article oil clothing. There
were 240. 600 pairs Of sabots. or wooden shoes.
besides 500, 900 pairs Of leather shoes; for
The piercing cold Of the crimea there were
Is 1000 sheepskin palitots. 100000 capotes
AMI hoods there we're tents for 250.0O0.
The harness and larriery departments pre-.
sent an immense quantity Of supplies among
them were sou, 900 horse shoes and 5000,
900 horse shoe nails Of mems coathing, horse
eiothingand entapparatus there were 30. 600
tons weight.
We have not room for all the particulars
even Of the Intelligencer's synopsis. The
treasury or military chest was,attended 70 by
staff of ninety officers. The cash expended
was about ilty-six millions Of dollars, most
" in coin, though sumo in treasury notes,
which we're readily taken BY the large traders
in the East.
For Conveying the army. the French navy
furnished 1872 ships; the British Admiralty
ships Of war and ~ chartered vessels; be.
sides which the French government charter
ed directly 264 merchant vessels. OF which
large nsmber was American. These yes
srls transported 100000 tons ef material.
besides the immense array OF men add horses
mentioned above.
The InieIligeneer remarks that the expe.
dition Of Bonapstte to Egypt in 1893 and oil
the French to Algiers 10 1880 were consider
80 she aRu pArh
required many months Of active and anxious
preparation, but neither OF them exceeded
$4,000 troops. and though they were tso o
the most important aud largest expeditions
that had ever left Europe, they sink into IN
significance compared 70 the French opera
tons ia the Crimea, which were conducted
on = far more gigantic ssale than any othe
war the world has ever seen, By expedition.
conveyed over the ocean at sch distance
from the counties carrying on the operations
tits the introduction Of steam which la
enabled France 20 enact the pf0dgies. Robt
Fulton, before tfring lis experiment on th'
Hgdspn river, built steamboat and ron !
on she Seine, for the purpose of showing th'
first Napoleon how he could invade England
That great man considered steamboats, in
practicable aud unsafe. The thing had beef
attempted before BY an Engiishman aud
Frenehman without suceess. TIE engine o
Fulton. boat, il /. observable, was manufae
tured IN England, sOtbs, Great Britain turn
Ell oct frOm ter shops a machine which,
adopted BIZ Napoleon. would have PROVE
tnore pptent 10 her.elf than the bombshell
manufactured In the same country, TO Lou
Nap leon. The first engine used by Fuitoi
III tlis country was also u British manuiat
tutr.
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