New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-21


Marshals of France, namely: Count Vail
laint, Count Baraguey d'Hilliers, Count
Random, E. Lebeuf, F. C. Canrobert, NJ. E.
p. M, Mcmahon Duke of Magenta), c. +.
Forey, f. A. Bazaine. Under the peace es-
Establishment the army was divided into the
corps Of the Imperial Guard and seven
army corps. The personnel OF the army is
as follows:
Impeyial Guard. - Commander-in-Ch Chief,
Marshal Valiant First Division, General
Bourbaki Second Division, General DER
vile: cavalry, Count de Montebello; artil-
lery, General Canu.
First Corps dArme COMMANDMENTS
Chief, Marshal Canrobert First Division,
Marshal CanrObert; Second Division, Gen
eral Baron Renault. F,sJr
Second Corps dArme.-C
Chief, General Count lAdmirault; Third
Division, General Fenelon; Fourth Division,
General Mafquis de LINERS.
Third Corps TArme. COMMANDMENT
Chief, Marshal Bazaine; Fifth Division,
General de Paladines; Sixth Division, Gen
eral Ducrot; Seventh Division, General
Donay; cavalry, General Desvaux.
Fourth Corps dArme-COmmander-i
Chief, General Cousin de MOntanban,
Count of Palikao; Eighth Division, Count
of Palikao; Ninth Division, General Exea;
Tenth Division, General Maissiat; Seven
teenth Division, General De CarOndelet;
Twentieth Division, General dAydren;
Twenty-secOnd Division, General Count de
Monet; Cavalry, General Count of Clerem-
bault.
Fifth Corps TArme.-Commander
Chief, Marshall Baraguey dHilliers; Fiji
teenth Division, General de la MotterOuge;
Sixteenth Division, General de Cissey;
Eighteenth Division, General de GerandOn;
Nineteenth Division, General Sol; Twenty
first Division, General de Villiers.
Srth Corps dArme-COmmander-in-
Chief, General Count de Goyon; Eleventh
Division, General Legrand; Twelfth D1yi-
sion, General de LOrencez; Thirteenth d.
vision, General de ChamperOn; Fourteenth
Division, General Daumas.
Seventh Corps GArme-COmmander-i
Chief, Marshal Mcmahon, Duke of Ma
genta: Twenty-third Division, General de
Wimpffen; Twenty fourth Division, General
Deligny; Twenty-tifth Division, General
PerigOt.
France has 1l9 fortresses, of which eight
are of the first rank: Paris, Lyons, Stras-
bourg, Metz, Lille, TOulOn, Brest and Cher
bourg. The Notifications of Paris are stated
to have cost $40,000,000, and up to 1868
there had been expended on Cherbourg
$34,OOO,OOO
The Prussian Army.
The German military organization is COM
plete, and according to a statement in the
Prussian Military Gazette, ga million soldiers
can at any moment be placed under arms
by a single telegram from Berlin" The
Prussian troops, the same authority adds,
consists of 325 battalions of infantry, 268
squadrons of cavalry, ii regiments OF
artillery, with TAG guns, and IL battalions
of engineers, making in all 4lO, 600 soldiers.
To these should be added the federal con-
tingents of Saxony, Brunswick, Mecklen-
burg Strelitz, and Hesse Darmstadt-in all
$1,000 men. But this force of 463, 600 only
represents the standing army OF North
Germany. In case of invasion, and then
only, Prussia can also command the services
of the troops of Baden, Wurtemberg, and
Bavaria, and Immediately order reserve,
consisting of an army of l43,O 900 men. An
additional force of 100000 men is at her
disposal for the occupation of towns and
garrisOns. Every Prussian subject is en-
rolled as soldier as soon as he has COM
pleted his twentieth year. He serves, I'M
less exempted, three years in the regular
army, four in the reserve, and at the end of
this term enters the Landwehr or militia for
nine years. Leaving the Landwehrs he is
finally enrolled in the Lansturm until he is
fifty years of age.
The commander in chief of the army and
navy is the King. The chief of the staff is
General Moltke. The regular army is divi-
ded into twelve corps darme and twenty
ders:
Corps of the Guard-Commander in chief
General the Prince Augustus of Wurtcm-
berg; First Division, Lieutenant General
lAlvensleben; Second Division, Lieutenant
General de Loewenfeld; Cavalry, Major
General Count Won der Goltz.
First army COrps-COmmandlng General
Baron de Mantenffel; First Division, Lieu
tenant General de Bentheim: Second Divis-
ion. Lieutenant General de Hartmann.
Second army CO,ps-COmmanderI III chief,
Frederick William, Prince Royal of Prussia.
Third Division. Lieutenant General de
Werler; Fourth Division, Lieutenant Gen
eral de Weyhern.
Third Army ps.-Commander-m-C hle1,
Prince Frederick Charles; Fifth DIVISION,
Lieutenant General de Stulpnagel; Sixth
Division. Lieutenant General BuddenbrOch.
Fourth Army Corps. = Commandments
Chief. General d'Alvensleben Seventh Dl-
vision, Lieutenant General de Fransecky;
Eighth Division, Lieutenant General de
Schoeler
FTnh Arn,y Command ,r-in-C Chief,
General de Steinmetz: Ninth DIVISION, Lieu
tenant General de Rheinbaben; Tenth Di-
vision, Lieutenant General de hlrcnpaGh.
Sirh .lyD,y ps.-COmmander-n-C hlef,
General de Tumpling; Eleventh Division
Lieutenant General de Gordon; Twelfth Dl-
vision. Lieutenant General Count Wemige-
rode.
Serenh army Corps. - Commander-in-
Chief, General de ZastrOw; Thirteenth Di-
vision, Lieutenant General de Goeben;
Fourteenth Division, Lieutenant General
de Blumenthal.
Eighth Army Corps Commander Chief,
General de Bittenfeld; Fifteenth Division,
Lieutenant General de Caustcin; Sixteenth
Division, Lieutenant General de Barnekow.
Ninth Army Co,ps.-Commander-in- Chief,