The 12th (Saxon) and 13th (Württemberg) Corps have a slightly different composition. They each number 4 Infantry, 2 Cavalry and 1 Field Artillery Brigades (each brigade consisting of 2 regiments), besides one battalion of Field Engineers and one of the Train. The Guard Corps also is constituted rather differently from any other. [Sidenote: +Size of Army.+] On the 1st April, 1890, the entire German Army consisted of 20 Army Corps, quartered as follows:— The Guard Corps, in Berlin, Potsdam, Charlottenburg, and Spandau (with the exception of the 4th Guard Grenadier Regiment, which is quartered at Coblenz). ---------------+-------------------------+------------ Corps. | District. | Head | | Quarters. ---------------+-------------------------+------------ I. | East Prussia | Königsberg II. | Pomerania | Stettin III. | Brandenburg | Berlin IV. | Province of Saxony | Magdeburg V. | Posen | Posen VI. | Silesia | Breslau VII. | Westphalia | Münster VIII. | Rhine Provinces | Coblenz IX. | Schleswig-Holstein | Altona X. | Hanover | Hanover XI. | Hesse-Nassau[16] | Cassel XII. | Kingdom of Saxony | Dresden XIII. | Kingdom of Württemberg | Stuttgart XIV. | Grand Duchy of Baden | Carlsruhe XV. | Alsace | Strasburg XVI. | Lorraine | Metz XVII. | West Prussia | Danzig 1st Bavarian } | | Corps. } | Bavaria | Munich 2nd Bavarian } | | Corps. } | ” | Würzburg ---------------+-------------------------+------------ The nineteen Territorial Districts of the Army correspond to the nineteen Army Corps Districts. The recruits, however, of the XVth and XVIth Corps districts are not allowed to serve there, but are distributed amongst other corps. The Guard Corps draws its recruits from the different districts of Prussia, and from Alsace-Lorraine. The main idea which directed the above recent apportioning of troops was to distribute them so as to be immediately available in case of war in any quarter. Formerly, the tendency was to group the forces where they could be most conveniently trained and worked, without reference to the possibilities of war.