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INDEX. 
Commission appointed by His Majesty the 
Emperor of Russia, to enquire into the 
provision of ordnance for fortresses and 
for naval service, report of, 63 
Common shell for American rifled siege or 
garrison ordnance, weights of, 225 
•- British rifled siege or garrison ord¬ 
nance, weights of, ib. 
-mountain train guns, 455 
-- Prussian rifled siege or garrison 
ordnance, weights of, 225 
- rifled field guns, weights of, 223 
-Woolwich guns, 210 
Companies of Royal Artillery at battle of 
Dettingen, 268 
Comparative advantages of breech-loading 
and muzzle-loading systems for rifled 
field artillery, 312 
Comparison of the accuracy of guns, in 
artillery practice, 45 
--of ranges with solid shot and segment 
shell, 315 
-- of ordnance of different services, 222 
Competitive Armstrong M.L. 70-pr. gun,vented 
to strike the cartridge near the centre, 
204 
Complaints made against Shrapnel’s spherical 
case shot, 415 
Complement of Russian monitors, 102 
Composition of Austrian army corps in the 
campaigns of 1866 in Germany, 380 
-of Prussian, 379 
Compressors for muzzle-pivoting gun carriages, 
description of, 257 
“ Concussion ” fuze, definition of, 74, 75 
Conditions requisite in rifled guns to ensure 
accuracy of fire, 221 
Conduct of escort for guns, rules laid down 
by Benedek for, 449 
“ Cone plug,” Pettman’s fuze, description of, 
77,81,293. 
Conical ended shot, 235 
Construction of ordnance, methods of, 216 
Contract drivers with long whips, troops re¬ 
viewed at Woolwich with, 271 
Coomergoan, 147 
Copenhagen bombarded, 405 
-, regulations for the measurement of dis¬ 
tances for the use of the maritime 
fortifications of, 41 
-, Sir Arthur Wellesley’s march upon, 405 
Coprolites of hyaena brunnea found in Genista 
cave, Gibraltar, 300 
Copper cannon, corporation of Dijon lends 
Duke of Burgundy two, 13 
Copper friction tubes, 457 
“ Corigia,” 31 
Corning gunpowder, date of, 274 
Corunna, glimpse of the retreat to, 409 
“ CourToie d’agraffe,” 283 
Cours d’Artillerie, effect of the position of the 
vent oh initial velocity, extracted from, 
200 
Cre?y, cannon employed at, 18 
** Crochus,*’ 33 
Cronstadt, Krupp’s guns for fortress of, 64 
Crown Prince of Prussia, King’s instructions 
before the battle of Sadowa to, 381 
Cuppage, Lieut. R.A., dangerously wounded 
at siege of Gibraltar, 388 
Currey, Edmund, letter to Shrapnel, 392 
“ Cuve,” weight of, 8 
Cuvelier, reference to use of bombards, 18 
D. 
Danish fleet carried off by the British, 405 
- demanded “ in deposit,” ib. 
Dautresche, Thomas, accounts relating to the 
manufacture and dimensions of ancient 
cannon by, 2 
Defence of fortified camp Maister Cornelliis, 
French account of, 414 
“ Defence of Portugal,” destructive effect of 
spherical case shot, extracted from, 409 
Derby, Johannis de, receipts and expenses of, 
i8, 21 
“Dessus de col,” 283 
Destruction of floating batteries, monster guns 
required for, 229 
Details of ammunition expended at siege of 
Madras, 437 
—— packing of ^ stores and ammunition, 
mountain train, 452, 453 
“Detonating ball,” Pettman’s percussion fuzes, 
77 
—— composition for Pettman’s general service 
percussion fuze, 293 
Dettingen, companies of Royal Artillery at 
battle of, 268 
Devon, Mr, extracts from Issue Rolls of 
Exchequer, on guns throwing stones, 
Ac., 23 
Dewangiri attacked by Bhooteas, 143 
Dijon, corporation lends Duke of Burgundy 
two copper cannon, 13 
Dimensions of “ Hercules ” target, 107 
-the nine seconds fuze for M.L. 
ordnance, 428 
Disadvantages alleged against breech-loading 
guns, 328 
—■-review of, 330 
Dispatch, losses at Yimeira, from, 405 
- - , on the capitulation of Cape of Good 
Hope, services of artillery not named in, 
402 
- on the advance into the Eyber Pass, 423 
Disposition of an infantry brigade for action, 
441 
Distances, measurement of, 39 
Doot.ma, 140 
Doria, Pietro, killed by bombard, 30 
Double turret Russian iron-clad boat 
“ Smerch,” 101 
Douglas, Sir Howard, account of actions of 
artillery on the Nivelle described by, 398 
Douro, French losses at the passage of the, 
409 
-, remarks on the passage of the, ib. 
Dover Castle, indenture of 1372, relating to 
stores of, 25 
Draught by means of bricoles, programme of 
experiments on a system of, 285 
--— minute of the General com¬ 
manding the artillery of the guard, on 
the facility of, 287 
-, for mountain train, adaption to, 455 
Drilling, remarks on, 386 
Drinkwater, account of effect of large mortar 
shell at Siege of Gibraltar, 389 
“ Drivels,” 20 
Drivers (artillery), corps of, raised, 271 
- not regularly enlisted in either French 
or English services till the beginning of 
the present century, 269 
—— with long whips, reviewed at Woolwich* 
271 
