INDEX, 
A 
Abstract, shewing the velocity of solid shot 
fired from a 68-pr. unbushed gun, with 
the cartridge made up of different lengths 
and diameters, 197, 198 
-of spherical shot, fired from the bronze 
68-pr. block, with “ pellet ” powder 
similar to that used by the Committee 
on gunpowder, 206 
--, fired with a charge of 14 lbs. 
L.G. rifle powder, from bronze 68-pr. 
block, bored to 42-pr. calibre, 205 
-— -, fired with a charge of 14 lbs. 
L.G. powder, from the bronze 68-pr. 
block, bored up to 42-pr. calibre, 204 
— -, fired from a 68-pr. unbushed 
gun, with cartridges made up of different 
lengths and diameters, 198 
Abyssinia, mountain train formed for service 
in, 452 
Accounts of Shrapnel queried by Board of 
Ordnance, 397 
Accuracy of guns, formulae for measuring the, 
53 
-in artillery practice, on the, 45 
-breech-loading and muzzle-loading 
guns, table of, 317 
--of fire of Bussian B.L. and M.L. guns, 
testing the, 70 
Action of Boxer’s ammunition for Snider 
converted rifle, 263 
- - ■ ■ ■— wood time fuze for M.L. ordnance, 
428 
-bullet for Snider converted rifle, 262 
-Freeth’s percussion fuze, 193 
• -Pettman’s general service percussion 
fuze, 294 
— - the 9 secondsfuze for M.L. ordnance, 
428 
— -- 20 seconds, ib., 430 
Acton Common, experiments at in 1760, with 
coehorn and royal shells, 388 
Actual experiments with B.L. and M.L. 
rifled field guns, results of, 326 
Adapter for Freeth’s percussion fuze, 191 
Adaption to draught, mountain train, 455 
Adour, massing of guns at the-passage of the, 
272 
Advance into the Xyber Pass, 423 
—— of the Prussians into Austria, campaigns 
of 1866, 364 
Advantages claimed for breech-loaders, 327 
--review of, 329 
—— derived from firing case shot, pub¬ 
lished by Shrapnel, 394 
• - gained by substituting rifled for smooth- 
bored guns, 223 
—— of B.L. and M.L. systems for rifled field 
artillery, 312 
■-- of chilled projectiles over steel, for 
penetrating purposes, 236 
——• of spherical case shot, enumeration of 
the, 395 
Advice of General Bey to Marshal Soult, 
419 
Africa, connexion between Europe and, 300 
Agnew, P. A., Adjt.-Gen., extracts from letter 
of, on the effects produced by spherical 
case shot, 414 
Albuera, Beresford’s tactics at, 411 
-, losses of the Allies at, ib. 
- } - French, ib. 
Aldershot, gun disabled on field day at, 331 
“ Alison,” losses at Yimiera, extract from, 405 
Allied losses at Busaco, 412 
American breech-loading rifles, 241 
—— cartridges for breech-loading rifles, sec¬ 
tion of, 242 
-rifled field guns, table of weights, &c. of, 
223 
— --siege or garrison ordnance, nature 
and weights of, 225 
- smooth-bored cast-iron ordnance, nature 
and weights of, 227 
-weights of projectiles and 
charges for, 226 
Americans, ballistic pendulum rejected by, 165 
Ammunition, expenditure by Austrian army 
in the campaign of 1866 in Germany, 
of, 381 
- expended at siege of Madras, details of, 
437 
-for breech-loaders, disadvantages alleged 
against, 328 
- for B.L. and M.L. guns, testing of, 325 
- for the siege of Bayonne, list of, 420 
-- for mountain service, details of, 452, 453 
- in reserve, 457 
-, cars introduced for carrying, 271 
- Boxer’s, for Snider converted rifle, 261 
— -, summary of peculiar features of, 264 
-—, packing of, 263 
-, mountain train service, conveyance of, 
455 
-in reserve, ib. 456 
-, remarks on military breech-loading rifles 
and their, 240 
Analyses of grey, mottled, and white irons, 234 
Analysis of reports on. the two systems of 
draught in the French service, 287 
Anderson, Lieut. B.A., killed by explosion of 
powder barrel, 131 
Ancient cannon in Europe, from A.D. 1351 to 
A.p. 1400, 1 
Anjou, Louis, Duke of, order from, 6 
Annals of Napier, losses at Albuera, extracted 
from, 411 
-of Peninsular campaigns, extracts from, 
421 
Annual Beport, 1865-1866, 83 
---, 1866-1867, 333 
Appendix to the campaigns of 1866 in Ger¬ 
many, 379 
Application of shrapnel at the siege of Sebas¬ 
topol, some notices of the, 424 
Archseologia, account of receipts and expenses 
of early English cannon, extracted from, 18 
