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_).) 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 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. The communication troops consist of the railroad regiments, which in time of war have to see to the building and running of railroads; of the telegraph battalions, which put up telegraph lines; of the fortress telephone companies, which attend to all telephone matters in the fortress; of the air-ship and aeroplane battalions, who are entrusted with spying out the land and the enemy’s positions by means of balloons, air-ships and aeroplanes. The communication troops are armed like the infantry. The transport service (_Train_) supplies every kind of column of the army with bridge materials, food, ammunition, etc. Its weapons are swords, carbines and revolvers. [Illustration: Floating the Pontoons] [Illustration: Machine Guns Being Loaded on Pontoons] It is not worth while here to enter into the question of uniforms. In time of peace the blue coats and red collars of the infantry, the varied colored _attilas_ and fur caps of the hussars, the helms with the flying eagles of the guards, the tresses, the gleaming epaulettes, the scarves, the waving plumes, are all interesting enough, especially to the other sex; but in war that is all laid aside. In order to be as invisible as possible to the enemy all categories of troops wear the same ashen gray—a comparatively recent adaptation of the principle of protective coloring.