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INDEX. 
Breech-loading rifles, American cartridge for, 
242 
--, (military) and their ammunition, 
240 
Breech, mechanism of rifles, systems of, 248 
Brest, Eichard II. directs that canons and 
stores he purchased for armament of 
castle of, 22 
Breteuil, French besiege the castle of, 16 
“ Bricole,” minute of the Emperor Napoleon, 
on the services of the, 290 
-, on a system of harnessing with the, 
283 
-- , price of, 284 
—programme of experiments made on a 
system of draught by means of, 285 
British and foreign Ordnance, comparison of, 
222 
-guns at battle of Goojerat, preponderance 
of, 397 
—- losses at Maida, 404 
-- Maister Cornelliis, 414 
.-- Salamanca, 416 
---- Talavera, 409 
.- Waterloo, 421 
- M.L. built-up ordnance, nature and 
weights of, 227 
*-rifled field guns, table of weights, &e. 
of, 223 
-rifled, siege, or garrison ordnance, nature 
and weights of, 225 
Brondolo, bombardment of, 30 
u Bronienositz,” constructed at the Baltic 
mechanical works, 102 
Bronze guns, relative cost per ton, 219 
Browne, Capt. E. A., on Boxer ammunition for 
Snider converted rifle, 261 
- - , on mountain train formed for service in 
Abyssinia, 452 
Brown, Lt. E.A., on the geology of Gibraltar, 
with especial reference to the recently 
explored caves and bone breccia, 295 
Brown, Messrs, Sheffield, armour plates of 
Eussian “ Ne tron mene,” manufactured 
by, 100 
Bruges, men of Ghent making war on town 
of, 14 
Buchon, M., note by, 23 
Built-up guns, extract from Mr Whitworth’s 
evidence on, 218 
— - —, introduction of, 331 
-, relative cost per ton, 219 
-ordnance, weights of, 227 
Bullet, Enfield, weight of, 246 
-for Prussian needle gun, weight of, 247 
.-for Snider converted rifle, dimensions 
and weight of, 244, 261 
-, Westley Eichards, weight of, 246 
Bullets, receipt for manufacture of, from 
treatise by John Aider ne, 22 
Burgundy, Duke of, castle of Camerolles 
taken by, 5 
Bursters, for common shell for British rifled 
siege or garrison ordnance, weights of, 
'225 
—— for projectiles for British M.L. built-up 
ordnance, weights of, 227 
-for common shell for Prussian rifled 
siege or garrison ordnance, weights of, 225 
- for common shells, for rifled field guns, 
223 
-*»— for projectiles for S.B. cast-iron American 
ordnance, weights of, 227 
Burtt, Mr, evidence discovered by, 23 
Busaco, destructive effects of shrapnel shells 
at, 412 
Buxar, 150 
C. 
« Cace,” 13 
Caen, manufacture of large cannon at, 8,12 
Calabrians revolt against the French, 404 
Calais, as a depot of English military stores, 
17 
- siege of, by Edw. III., 6 
Calibre of Enfield rifle, 248 
-, mountain train guns, 454 
“Calleron,” 283 
Camerolles castle, taken by the Duke of 
Burgundy, 5 
Cammell & Co., Messrs, armour plates of 
“ Hercules ” target manufactured by, 107 
Camp at Florisdorff, intrenched, 276 
Campaign on the river Maine, 368 
Campaigns of 1866 in Germany, chronology 
of the principal events in the, 379 
-, composition of Austrian army corps in, 
380 
-of Prussian, 379 
——, disparity of numbers of prisoners ex- 
exchanged after, 373 
-, expenditure of ammunition in, 381 
-, lecture on the, 355 
-, list of books and memoirs on the, 384 
-, per centage of Austrian army in, 373 
-, review of, 370 
-, situation of the Austrians at the close of 
the, 367 
Campaigns (Peninsular), extracts from annals 
of, 399 
Campbell, Captain, E.A., disperses working 
party under the Malakoff, by shrapnel 
shells, 424 
Cannon, ancient, in Europe, from A.D. 1351 
to a,d. 1400, 1 
- arrows, 4 
-, comparison of prices of materials for the 
manufacture of, in 1375 and 1865, 10 
- constructed to throw a projectile of 
4501b. weight, 12 
- employed at Crepy, 18 
-, extract from Spenser’s “Faerie Queen,’* 
on the discharge of, 266 
•-, field, 14 
-, gigantic, hurling massive stones, 12 
-, in the 14th century, throwing heavier 
balls than guns now in our service, 1 
——, inventory in the year 1397 of Italian, 
34 
-, manufacture at Archangel in 1358 of, 26 
-projecting arrows and leaden bullets, 
12 
-, rifled, of heavy calibre, 63 
-, stones used as projectiles for, 7 
-, usage of carrying, 18 
Canning, Mr, Lord Suffolk’s interview on the 
subject of shrapnel shells with, 403 
“ Canon a queue,” 3 
“ Canonniers,” 13 
Cape of Good Hope, letter from General 
Fergusson, on the operations at, 401 
.— -, from Major Spicer, on the effects 
produced by spherical case shot at, ib. 
——, operations under Sir David Bail’d, at 
the, 400 
