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, smallarms 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 Woolwich, England, which manufactures warlike implements and stores for the English army and navy, was formed about 1720, and comprises factories, laboratories, 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, ARSENIC Plymouth, and Pembroke. In France there are various arsenals or depots of war material at L'Orient, Rochefort, Cherbourg, Mézières, Toulouse, etc.; the great naval arsenals are Brest and Toulon. The chief German arsenals ART named after Arsinoë, wife and sister of Ptolemy II., of Egypt, and called also Crocodilopolis, from the sacred crocodiles kept at it.
ARSINOË, daughter of Ptolemy I., King of Egypt, born 316 B. C., married at 16 the aged Lysimachus, King of Thrace, whose eldest son, Agathocles, had already wedded Lysandra, her halfwere at Spandau, Strasburg, and Dantzig, that at the first-mentioned place having been the great center of the military manufactories. The chief Austrian arsenal was the immense establishment sister. Desirous of securing the throne at Vienna, which includes gun factory, for her own children, Arsinoë prevailed laboratory, small-arms and carriage on her husband to put Agathocles to factories, etc. Russia had her principal death. Later Lysimachus was slain. In arsenal at Petrograd with supplementary 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 ordnance proving grounds at Sandy Hook (N. J.) and Aberdeen (Md.).