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INDEX. 
Archives of E. M. Eepository, experiment 
carried on at Gibraltar in 1787, extracted 
from, 387 
Arderne, John, receipt from treatise by, 22 
Armament of Eussian turret boats and 
monitors, 102 
Armies at Barossa, losses of, 410 
Armour-clad Eussian vessels, dimensions of, 
105 
Armour plates “ Hercules ” target, manufac¬ 
tured by Messrs Cammell & Co., 107 
. -■■■■, dimensions of, ib. 
--manufactured at tbe Ijorske 
Works, 100 
• - ■ - of “Ne tron mene,” manufactured 
by Messrs J. Brown, of Sheffield, ib. 
- —, trial of B.L. rifled gun, in Eussia, 
with Krupp’s arrangement, against, 69 
--—, results of, 72 
Arms, doubts as to the relative value of the 
three, 385 
Armstrong, Sir W., “ building up ” system 
introduced by, 331 
—— evidence on the merits of the two systems 
of breech or muzzle loading for rifled 
field artillery, 313 
- - system of rifling guns, 222 
Armstrong built-up guns, relative cost per 
ton, 219 
— guns, formula to calculate the initial 
velocity for, 189 
-, testing time fuzes for, 321 
- - , trial of case shot proposed for, 320 
- method of construction of ordnance, 217 
- steel shells valueless against “Hercules” 
target, 112 
Army corps (Austrian) in the campaigns of 
1866 in Germany, composition of, 380 
-Prussian, 379 
Arrangement of Pettman’s general service 
percussion fuze, 292 
Arras, extract from register of accounts of 
details of stores for the defence of the 
town of, 6 
Arrows called muschitee, 33 
Arsenals in Eussia, 63 
Artevelde, Philip de, besieges Audenarde, 15 
Artillery, admirable conduct at Waterloo of, 
329 
* -, attack of fortified camp “ Maister 
Corneliis ” by batteries of, 414 
--battle, 423 
-, comparative advantages of B.L. and 
M.L. systems for rifled field, 312 
—— complimented by the French at Torres 
Yedras, 407 
—— corps of drivers raise#, 271 
-, decided effects at Maida, of, 398 
— - —- —, at Waterloo, ib. 
——, disposition at battle of Koniggratz, of, 
-—, earliest mention of manoeuvre of, 265 
.-, extracts from despatch of Duke of 
Wellington, on the effective services of, 
416, 417 
--, field, rough notes on the history of, 265 
--, germ of mobility traceable to Swedish, 
268 
——, horse, Frederick the Great forms a 
brigade of, 268 
--—, introduced into England, 270 
-, horses, complaint of Sir A. Wellesley 
at Eor^a of the defect of, 271 
Artillery, loss of the battle at Leipsic attri¬ 
buted to Tilly’s ignorance of, 266 
-, improvements by Gribeauval made in, 
269 
«-, losses at Maida, 404; at Waterloo, 400 
-manoeuvre of Marlborough at battle of 
Blenheim, 267 
——, massing at Barossa, of, 410 
—— materiel , improvement by the Duke of 
Wellington of, 271 
——, one good round'of, 410 
- operations on the Nivelle, 399 
- practice, against St Sebastian, descrip¬ 
tion of, 398 
-, on the comparison of the accuracy 
of guns in, 45 
-, proceedings of foreign, 61 
- question, the present state of the, 212 
-, Eoyal Eegiment of, formed, 267 
-, services at the battle of Talavera, 409 
-,-, in siege of Madras, 431 
•-,-, not named in dispatch, on capitu¬ 
lation of Cape of Good Hope, 402 
“ Artilleur,” wages to an, 3 
Assault at Tenremonde, description of, 14 
Attack of Gibraltar, the French account of, 389 
Aubin du Cormier, earliest mention of a 
manoeuvre of artillery, at battle of, 265 
Audenarde, roofs of houses covered with earth 
at siege of, 14 
-, bombarde used at siege of, 15 
Austria, advance of the Prussians, into, 364 
Austrian army, disparity of number of pri¬ 
soners exchanged, after campaign of 1866 
in Germany, 373 
-artillery compared with Prussian, 442 
——- batteries attached to brigades, rules for 
conduct of, 446 
—— casualties at battle of Koniggratz, 
383 
—— cavalry, rules for conduct of, 445 
-, expenditure of ammunition in campaign 
of 1866, by, 381 
- infantry, rules for conduct of, 445 
-, situation at close of the campaign in 
Germany, of, 367 
B. 
Badajos, effect of shrapnel at siege of, 418 
Baird, Sir David, advance to the attack of 
J anssens force at the Cape of Good Hope, 
by, 398 
Bala Pass, Bhootan, Works of, 153 
Baltic mechanical works and foundry, 
“ Bronienositz ” and “Latnik” con¬ 
structed at, 102 
Barlow on resistance of metal, 214 
Barossa, services of British artillery at, 410 
Barrington, Lieut. E.A. shells for rifled field 
guns, 305 
Barry, Col;, commanding field battery in 
China, report of breech-screws jammed 
with rust, 331 
Bashforth, Kev. F., B.D., description of a 
chronograph adapted for measuring the 
varying velocity of a body in motion 
through the air, and for other purposes, 
161 
Batteries, (coast brigade), Krupp’s B.L. gung 
suited for the armament of, 72 
