Infantry on the March
To the infantry belong the sharpshooter battalions (Jägerbataillone), the guard sharpshooter battalion (Gardejägerbataillon) and the guard rifle-battalion (Gardeschützenbataillon). The infantrymen are known as grenadiers, musketeers and fusileers.
The cavalry is armed with lance, saber and carbine. Its chief value is for scouting and for precautionary service, but it is also used for riding down the enemy and piercing him with the lance. The cavalry may also dismount and fight on foot like the infantry. For shooting it uses the carbine.
The cavalry consists of cuirassiers, uhlans, hussars, dragoons and mounted riflemen. (In Saxony guard-riders (Gardereiter) and carbineers; in Bavaria heavy riders and light horse (Chevaulegers).)
Floating the Pontoons
The field artillery is effective through the swiftness with which it rides up and through the certainty of aim of its quick-firing guns. The field artillery carries batteries of cannon for firing against visible goals and light howitzer batteries, for shooting at objects behind cover and for demolishing light field fortifications. The drivers carry a sword and revolver, the cannoneers a dagger and revolver. Every man of the horse-drawn division is mounted and carries sword and revolver.
The foot artillery has to serve the fort and siege artillery as well as the heavy artillery guns of the field army; in attacking a fortress it must silence the enemy’s heavy fort guns and make breaches in the [Pg 33] fortifications; when defending it must overcome the enemy’s heavy siege guns. The men are called cannoneers; they carry the carbine and the ninety-eight bayonet.
The pioneers see to the throwing up of entrenchments, the building and destroying of bridges, obstructions, etc.; they are armed like the infantrymen.
