INDEX. 
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A. 
Abstract of proceedings of a General 
Meeting of the E.A. Institution, held 
May 15,1868 . 47 
Do. do. May 19, 1869 . 307 
Abyssinia, elephant carriages for field 
guns and mortars employed in 191 
... Equipment of steel mountain 
batteries in. ... 194 
... Total number of troops and 
followers at 185 
Abyssinian campaign, summary of ... 186 
Expedition, by Lieut. E. E. 
Chapman, B.H.A. ... 167 
... Gun ... ... ... ... 119 
... Mountain batteries ... ... 120 
... Steel gun and carriage ... 12-2 
Accident at Moorfields foundry ... 236 
Account of field gun for India. 479 
Accounts, E.A.I., abstract of, 1867-8 ... 49 
. ... 1868-9 ... 309 
Action at Arogee.179 
Active service, Armstrong B.L. guns on 99 
. ErenchandPrussian guns 
on ... ... ... 102 
Adabagah camp, equipage at . 188 
Addigerat garrison, troops at . 172 
A description of the “scale of shade” 
for representing ground in relief, by 
Capt. Crawford, E.A. ... ... ... 502 
Adoption of the cheap plan as the service 
construction of heavy guns. 409 
Advance of French field artillery in the 
reign of Louis XI. ... ... ... 442 
Advanced guard, Prussian ... ... 257 
Advantages of Moncrieff system ... 23 
Adye, Col. J., on Central Asia. 389 
. On the field gun for 
India ... ... ... 498 
Afghanistan, account of. ... 393 
Alma, 9-pr. guns (Turner’s) at... ... 435 
Ammunition, boxes, stores, and mule 
equipment ... ... 345 
... Boxes, construction of ... 463 
... Method of packing ... 464 
... The amount proposed for 
expense magazines ... 448 
An account of the Great Cannon of 
Muhammad II. ... ... ... 203 
Ancient guns taking part in modern 
engagements. 211 
Gun carriages.286 
... Projectiles ... . ... ... 288 
... Warfare compared with present 440 
Annual Eeport E.A. Institution, 1867-8 47 
. 1868-9 307 
Antalo and Zulla, halting places between 173 
... Camp, distribution of troops at 171 
A paper read at E.A. Institution, on the 
field gun for India . . ... ... 479 
Apparatus on friction experiments, des¬ 
cription of ... ... ... ... 124 
Armament, unity and simplicity of, 9-pr. 
Indian gun .489 
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Armstrong and Whitworth Committee, 
account of ... ... 104 
... Do. do. report of ... 469 
... B.L. behaviour of on active 
service ... 99 
... Eield guns in NTew Ze aland, 
account of ... ... 100 
... Field guns for naval service 101 
... Gun, experience of ... 467 
... Guns, dimensions, rifling, 
service, &c. of ... ... 98 
... Principle of construction of 
... guns ... ... ... 96 
Army, Italian, strength of ... ... 5 
Arogee, action at ... ... ... ... 179 
Arrangements, temporary, of Italian 
army... . 5 
Artillery, as used in the 15th century ... 441 
... Effect of, in its infancy ... 438 
Equipment of, in 17th century 294 
... Garrison and field, when first 
formed .. 
... Heavy, progress in . 432 
... How and when to be used ... 458 
... Infancy of ... ... ... 438 
... Officers who have become famous 
in the wars in India... ... 403 
... Prussian, equipment of ... 254 
... “ Small” store, report on ... 450 
... State of, in 17th century ... 284 
... Stores in a battery ... ... 449 
When first organised ... 294 
“ Artillery Yard” ... ... ... 234 
Artillerymen, duty of, in batteries on 
service... ... ... ... ... 456 
Attack and defence of places, method of - 
Austrian ammunition boxes and packing 348 
... Artillery, behaviour of at Lipa 497 
... Cartridges ... . 348 
Case shot ... ... ... 347 
Common shells... ... ... 346 
... Eield gun carriage ... ... 345 
... Guns, rounds fired from ... 481 
... Mode of lubrication . 347 
Mountain artillery, by Colonel 
H. H. Maxwell, E.A. ... 341 
Mule equipment ... ... 350 
Eifled mountain gun. 343 
Shrapnel shells... ... ... 346 
System of grooving . 492 
3-pr. gun implements ... 348 
B. 
“ B ” battery (5 of 21st Bde.) E.A. estab¬ 
lishment of . 201 
... Mountain battery... ... ... 195 
Ballistic pendulums . 14 
... Pendulum, Boffins’ . 15 
Of 1814 17 
Barbette system, protected, by Captain 
A. Moncrieff... ... ... ... 19 
Barlow, Professor, the late, on the 
strength of metal cylinders. 336 
Barracks, E.A., at Woolwich, when built 279 
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