positions of the insurgents were taken by our soldiers at four o'clock.
Today the struggle is at an end; order, labour, and security are
springing up again.

Paris, Quartier General, the 28th May, 1871.

(Signed) "MACMAHON, Due de Magenta, Marshal of France,
Commander-in-Chief."

On the 28th of May the war of the Communists was at an end, but the fort
of Vincennes was still occupied by three hundred National Guards, with
eighteen of their superior officers and fifteen of the high
functionaries of the Commune; They made an appeal to the commander of
the Prussian forces in front of the fort, in the hope of obtaining
passports for Switzerland. General Vinoy, hearing of this, took at once
the most energetic measures, and at six o'clock on the 29th of May the
last defenders of Vincennes surrendered at discretion.

XVI

The amount of the extraordinary expenses of the Versailles
was, at the rate of three millions of francs a day, 216 millions from
the 18th March to the 28th May. The list of artillery implements
removed from the arsenals of Douai, Lyon, Besancon, Toulon, and
Cherbourg, and forwarded to Versailles from the 18th March to the
21st May, comprise--

80 cannons of 0.16m (6 in. 299/1000 diameter) from the War Arsenal
60 " " " from the Marine Arsenal
10 " of 0.22m (8 in. 661/1000 diameter) Marine.
110 Rifled long 24-pounders.
30 Rifled short 24-pounders.
80 Rifled siege 12-pounders.
3 Mortars of 0.32m (12 in. 598/1000 diameter).
15 Mortars of 0.27m (10 in. 629/1000 diameter).
15 Mortars of 0.22m (8 in. 661/1000 diameter).
40 Mortars of 0.15m (5 in. 905/1000 diameter).
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Total 393 artillery siege pieces.

Ammunition received at Versailles--

Shells of 0.16m (marine). . . . 73,000
" 0.22m " . . . . . 10,000
" 0.24m (rifled). . . . 140,000
" for 12-pounder (rifled) 80,000
Bombs of 0.32m . . . . . . . . 1,000
" 0.27m . . . . . . . . 7,000
" 0.22m . . . . . . . . 7,000
" 0.15m . . . . . . . . 30,000
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Total 348,000

The stock of gunpowder amounted to 400 tons.

Up to the 21st of May, the artillery received 20 tons a day, and on that
day 50 tons were forwarded to the besieging army.

Up to the 21st of May, the field ordnance consisted of--