On June 3rd, 1st the army crossed the Ingul along 2nd pontoon bridges and 4 fascination gates.
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On June 5th, 1st the army crossed the Sugokley River along 3 pontoon bridges and 3 fascination gates.
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On June 9th, 1st they marched from the river. Sugokley to the Dead Waters River, there was a crossing over one pontoon bridge and 3 fascination roads.
—_—_ 1) Arch. Military Top. depot, No. 15444, cabinet 201. Collection of maps and plans concerning before the Turkish war waged in the reign of your Empress Anna Toannovna, about 1736 to [739].
On the 16th of June, the Armenians crossed the Bug on 2 pontoon bridges, for marching field and siege artillery in 23 fathoms, and 14 pontoons were used at one distance. Yes, from the left wing of the river. Bug, at a distance of 150 fathoms, two bridges were built, which were made of barrels, and were installed between the barrels for connection by three pontoons.
On the way back:
July 17th day, at the tracts opposite Gnily-Elanets, they began to build two redoubts with a retrenchment, and left in them: 2 regiments - B%lozersyu and Smolensky, 5 pounds. guns—8.5 pounds. Myrtira-6, with its supplies and artillery servants.
19th July 1st across the river. Pontoon and barrel bridges were built. Armenia crossed them from the 20th to the 30th of July 1st.
On August 15, the Armenians crossed the Ingul via one pontoon bridge and 2 transport barges.
On the 30th, near the Koshevaya-Golova tract, a business was opened at the river. Dzpr Alexander-Shanets, in which leave the Vyatka Infantry Regiment and the Smolensk Regiment command.
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Report 5 of Count Shuvalov on the need to have pontoons with the army.
Discussed about the pontoons required by the army. January 11, 1757 1), during the reign of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.
In the Office of the Main Artillery and Fortifications, it was found that from the very beginning of the former Swedish War, during the life of the blessed glory, pontoons worthy of the memory of the Sovereign Emperor Peter the Great were with the army, and both according to the Military Regulations and according to special ones.
1) P.S. Zak. R. Imp. No. 10682.
Rator's Majesty's decree is to have pontoons and to maintain servants with them, and after that, during the past wars, they are REALLY, which to this day are maintained in tin with the prescribed period of 10 liters, each priced at 100 rubles, and according to the calculation for the year, 10 rubles, but about these in the past years, in the former wars, practice proved that transportation and frequent removal and dismantling of them soon bend and break, and from use on bridges from water and rain they rust and do not last the prescribed period and become so unusable that after they are dismantled, the tin is lost in vain without the slightest return to the treasury. In order to avoid the best artillery pontoons on those pontoons, the crossing was carried out by former Feldzeichmeister Generals and the Artillery Generals, and especially in 745, on July 1, 24 days, during a hearing at the Military Collegium of the Artillery State with the assembled Generals, it was decided and the last Artillery State was supposed to maintain the pontoons copper in number 40 in a 30-year period, the price of each is 360 rubles, and according to the annual calculation of 12 rubles, only due to the lack of copper capable of this in the Artillery, and due to the non-construction of these states, tons of pontoons are not yet built, but are still maintained tin.
For this reason, due to the above-mentioned and the following circumstances, pontoons are considered to be the best, for the necessary need for them in the army, to send and maintain money, only against the former state on what seems to be a useful and clear basis, namely: