ARSENAL, a place appointed for the making, repairing, keeping and issuing of military stores. An arsenal of the first class should include factories for guns and gun-carriages, small-arms, small arms ammunition, harness, saddlery, tents and powder; a laboratory and large storehouses. In arsenals of the second class, workshops take the place of the factories. The Royal Arsenal at Wool wich, England, which manufactures war like implements and stores for the Eng lish army and navy, was formed about 1720, and comprises factories, labora tories, etc., for the manufacture and final fitting up of almost every kind of arms and ammunition. Great quantities of military and naval stores are kept at the dockyards of Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Pembroke. In France there are various arsenals or depots of war material at L'Orient, Rochefort, Cherbourg, Mezieres, Toulouse, etc.; the great naval arsenals are Brest and Toulon. The chief German arsenals were at Spandau, Strasburg, and Dant zig, that at the first-mentioned place having been the great center of the mili tary manufactories. The chief Austrian
arsenal was the immense establishment at Vienna, which includes gun factory, laboratory, small-arms and carriage factories, etc. Russia had her principal arsenal at Petrograd with supplemen tary factories of arms and ammunition at Briansk, Kiev, and elsewhere. In Italy Turin is the center of the military factories.
The principal arsenals of the United States are at Pittsburgh (Pa.) ; Augusta (Ga.) ; Benecia (Cal.) ; Columbia (Tenn.) ; Fort Monroe (Va.) ; Frankford (Pa.) ; Indianapolis (Ind.) ; Augusta (Me.) ; New York (N. Y.) ; Rock Island (Ill.) ; San Antonio (Tex.) ; Watertown (Mass.) ; and Watervliet (N. Y.). There were also powder depots at St. Louis (Mo.), and Dover (N. J.) ; a noted armory at Springfield (Mass.), and ord nance proving grounds at Sandy Hook (N. J.) and Aberdeen (Md.).