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INDEX. 
Mountain batteries in Abyssinia 
... Gun, mode of laying. 
... ... The service; practice—its 
precision and effect ... 
... ... Various natures of fire 
with. 
... Guns. 
... ... Conditions under which 
they can be employed 
... ... Extreme range of 
Mud huts at Woolwich. 
Muhammad II., great cannon of 
Mule equipment 
... ... Austrian . 
... ... Chief components for 
Mules, detail of, with each battery 
... For reserve . 
... How to select . 
... Lading, and wagons 
... Load carried by ... 
... Rations for . 
Munster, a battery of eight guns at 
Muzzle-loading rifled guns, table shew¬ 
ing dimensions of ... 
... ... System, advantages of 
... Loader not inferior in accuracy 
to breech-loader 
... Loaders compared with breech¬ 
loaders .. 
N. 
Napier, Sir R., general order by, read to 
the troops after the 
capture of Magdala... 
... Letter to Theodore 
Naseby, defeat at, 1645 . 
Nature and weight of field gun for India 
Naval attack on Fort Sumter . 
... ... Sebastopol . 
... Attacks on forts ... 
... Service, Armstrong guns for 
Necessity for heavy M.L. rifled guns ... 
New brass gun foundry at Woolwich ... 
... Field gun, less horses required for 
. Less men required to 
work ... 
Noble, Capt. W. H., ballistic experi¬ 
ments, report of .. 
Note by translator on the new field 
artillery of Mattei-Rossi ... 
Notes on elephant carriage and steel 
mountain batteries em¬ 
ployed in Abyssinia 
... The equipment of the steel 
mountain batteries 
O. 
Observation by committee on the experi¬ 
ments against granite casemate, &c. 
Officers, directions to, on the march in 
Abyssinia 
... On the reserve of Italian army 
“ Old Woolwich,” by J. Hewitt, Esq. ... 
Oliver, Capt. J. R., on a clinometer for 
elevated coast batteries 
On the arrangement of expense maga¬ 
zines, shell rooms, small 
stores, and side-arm sheds 
for batteries of heavy rifled 
guns ... 
... Construction of batteries, by 
Major G. Williams, R.A. ... 
PAGE 
120 
373 
367 
376 
119 
382 
377 
273 
203 
345 
350 
351 
194 
195 
200 
358 
198 
200 
457 
113 
496 
480 
495 
183 
180 
301 
484 
85 
84 
101 
106 
236 
330 
331 
333 
191 
194 
74 
175 
3 
272 
7 
445 
455 
Ordnance, our rifled, a brief historical 
sketch of . 
... Return of, captured at Mag¬ 
dala . 
... Rifled, materials for. 
Ordre debataille ... 
Organisation for the transport of large 
bodies of troops on rail¬ 
ways . 
... Of Italian army. 
Otago saddles ... ... ' ... 
Our own and foreign guns compared ... 
P. 
Pack mules, change from wheel draft... 
Palliser’s chilled shot and shell ... 
... Guns 
Pickard, Lieut. R.H.A., on the Arm¬ 
strong guns in New Zealand 
Plan-drawing, necessary to the under¬ 
standing of the simplest battle 
Platform, materials required to make ... 
Plumstead Common, old practice-butt at 
Political history of India, extract from... 
Practice better than theory 
... With shrapnel shell . 
... With shrapnel shell, target on 
side of a hill. 
... With shrapnel shells at floating 
target 
Present state of the question of our heavy 
guns ... 
Pressure on extent of surface, how to 
ascertain the effect of 
Prince Rupert, letter from the King to 
“ Prince Rupert’s Tower ” . 
“ Prince Rupert’s Walk ” . 
Principles of construction of Armstrong 
guns. 
Proceedings of a meeting to report upon 
batteries at Southsea Castle 
Processes after the gun is built-up and 
before proof . 
... After proof and before issue... 
Projectiles, ancient 
For field guns 
Proof charges, when first used 
... Manner of... 
... Of ordnance, transferred from 
Moorfields to Woolwich... 
Protected barbette system, by Captain 
A. Moncrieff . 
Protection from direct fire . 
... ... Vertical fire . 
Prussian advanced guard . 
... And French guns on active 
service 
... Army, instructions for firing 
long ranges with rifled guns 
... Artillery, equipment of 
... Cavalry, do. 
... Divisional manoeuvre in the 
Rhine Province, by Major 
W. H. Goodenough, R.A. 
... Divisional manoeuvre, troops 
at . 
,i. Field guns, account of 
... Infantry division, a battalion 
... Infantry, remarks on 
... Military time tables .. 
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89 
189 
93 
258 
263 
2 
.197 
115 
365 
475 
118 
100 
442 
460 
277 
399 
458 
41 
42 
35 
411 
126 
232 
242 
244 
96 
445 
419 
424 
289 
326 
288 
423 
235 
19 
23 
257 
102 
328 
254 
255 
248 
249 
488 
262 
252 
265 
