ARTI1LERY, PARK OF, is a collective name given to the whole of the guns, car riages, ammunition, and other appurtenances essential to the working of siege or field A. Besides reserve guns and carriages, there belong to it the amniunition wagons, as well for the infantry and cavalry as for the A., the implements and materials necessary for repairing and completing equipments, harness-stores, field-forges, laboratories, and (in some armies) transport and provision wagons. The personnel of a park of A. consists of A. officers, non-commissioned officers, and artillerymen; besides a large number of smiths. wheelwrights, saddlers, armorers, drivers, and other mechanics and laborers. Sometimes the term is applied to the place selected, as well as to the vast military stores collected there. During a siege, the park of A. is stationed out of reach of the enemy's fire, but in communication with the besiegers' trenches. if possible, its locality is
chosen close to some good line of communication, either road or river. All pioneering or intrenching tools, and all handicraft implements, are arranged in rows nearest to time field of action, with requisite spaces for the convenience of the storekeepers and work men. Behind these are the materials for erecting batteries, making fascines and gabions, and filling sand-bags. Furthest removed from the enemy are the magazines, in and near which shot and shell and other kinds of ammunition are stored. A large park of A. is usually divided into park-columns, for the sake of better supervision. Under some circumstances, the engineering park is distinct from the park of A., especially where these two arm; of the service are so mutually independent as in the British army.