. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . was not alone in the means of transportthat the war found England ill prepared. The ord-nance store had fallen to a low condition since theformer war; and it was only by great exertionsthat it could be augmented during 1852. LordHardinge, commander-in-chief, in affording infor-mation concerning the state of the artillery at thebeginning of the war, said: My first act, on takingoffice in March 1852, as Master-General of the Ordnance, was to examine into the state of ourartillery; and I found the number of
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . was not alone in the means of transportthat the war found England ill prepared. The ord-nance store had fallen to a low condition since theformer war; and it was only by great exertionsthat it could be augmented during 1852. LordHardinge, commander-in-chief, in affording infor-mation concerning the state of the artillery at thebeginning of the war, said: My first act, on takingoffice in March 1852, as Master-General of the Ordnance, was to examine into the state of ourartillery; and I found the number of guns, field-batteries for Great Britain, to be about forty orfifty, and those of the date of the battle of proposed to Lord Derbys government, in a longmemorandum, my reasons for considering that tobe a dangerous condition for our artillery to be in,and I recommended that 300 guns, and two wagonsto each gun, should be immediately Derbys government assented to that proposal,which was carried into effect by the succeedinggovernment.* When the ordnance came to be. Lord Raglan. despatched to the East, vessels were freightedespecially for this service; and with every gunwere sent the men, horses, ammunition-wagons,and stores requisite for one gun, in order that,when landed, each consignment or detachmentmight be complete in itself. With 24 guns weredespatched from Woolwich 42 officers, 1090 men,961 horses, and 124 ammunition-wagons. The English army itself, taken in its totality,had fallen into an ill-organised state during a peaceof forty years. It was not enough that conquestshad been made in India, China, Birmah, Kaffir-land; it is not by such conquests that an armycan be maintained in the discipline and habitsof European warfare; and, indeed, most of theseconquests were made by troops belonging to theEast India Company, calling forth only a small amount of service from the queens troops. At thebeginning of 1854, the British army, besides theGuards compo
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