INDEX. 467 
Dublin Arsenal, no round shot at, to fit the 
guns in Emmett’s rebellion, 271 
Duncan, Major, R.A., on the effect of spherical 
case shot at Barossa, 410 
Durability of ammunition for B.L. and M.L. 
guns, tests of the, 314, 325 
Dutch wagoners in smock frocks, guns drawn 
by, 270 
E. 
Early English cannon, peculiar features of, 
' 18 
Earthern field works, trials of B.L. and M.L. 
guns against, 318 
Ease of working B.L. and M.L. guns, testing 
, the, 321 
Ecu, value of an, 2 
Edward III., accounts of receipts and ex¬ 
penses by keeper of wardrobe of, 18 
Effect of B.L. and M.L. guns in the field, 
trials of, 318 
Effects of chilled shot after penetration, 
237 
Egypt, an interview with the Vizier of, 
404 
Eldred, William, extract from “ Gunner’s 
Glass,” by, 274 
Eldred’s “ Table of Randoms,” extract from, 
275 
Electric telegraph, examples of measurements 
of distances for maritime fortifications, 
by, 43 
——-, method of measuring distances of 
Ships from coast batteries by means of, 38, 
39 
Elevations to test the ranges with solid shot 
and segment shells, 315 
Elliot, Capt., R.A., destructive effect of 
spherical case shot at Talavera, described 
by, 409 
Elongated cartridges, table shewing result of 
100 rounds of solid spherical shot, fired 
from the unbushed 68-pr., to test range, 
accuracy and recoil with, 197 
“ Emmancher,” 21 
Emmett’s rebellion, no round shot to fit the 
guns in Dublin Arsenal at, 271 
“ Enches,” 4 
Endurance of B.L. and M.L. guns, testing 
the, 323 
Enfield ammunition, comparison of Boxer’s 
with, 263 
■ ■ ■ bullet, weight of, 246 
-— rifle, cartridge for use with the Snider 
converted, 243 
-, length of barrel for, 247 
—--, without bayonet, weight of, 246 
Equipment, mountain train, 452, 453 
■—--— of half-battery for trial with 
French bricole, 286 
“Equipment of stores,” details of packing, 
extracted from, 452 
Escort for guns, Benedek’s rules for conduct 
of, 449 
“ Espringales,” 3 
Etudes (Emperor Napoleon’s), inventory taken 
at Bologna in 1381, relating to early 
cannons, extracted from, 30 
Europe, connexion between Africa and, 300 
Experiment for determining the velocity of 
the projectile when the cartridge was 
ignited in six different positions, 203 
Experiments against targets to represent 
bodies of troops, 320 
-at Penzance, carried on by Shrapnel, 
412 
——— at Woolwich by Shrapnel, letter from 
Committee to Board of Ordnance on, 
391 
- in Russia with Krupp's B.L. guns 
against armour plates, summary of, 72 
-to ascertain the greatest range of sphe¬ 
rical case shot, 415 
- on a system of draught by means of 
bricoles, 285 
-to ascertain the effect of the position of 
the vent on initial velocity, 200 
-— to determine the effect of elongating 
the cartridge on the velocity of the pro¬ 
jectile, 195 
—— with B.L. and M.L. guns, taken out of 
muddy ditch, results of, 324 
- — with grape and case shot at Chatham in 
1792, results of, 390 
- with muzzle pivoting gun, results of, 
259 
-— with Navez’s electro-ballistic apparatus, 
report of, 195 
• -with nine Russian large steel guns, 59 
• -with rifled field artillery, 320 
Extent of recoil with B.L. and M.L. guns, 
testing, 322 
Extract from a letter of Maj.-Gen. Long, on 
the war services of Gen. Whinyates, ix 
—— of minute of the French Committee of 
Artillery on a Report relative to the 
conservation of artillery harness in the 
campaign in Mexico, 290 
F. 
Facility of draught (French), minute of the 
general commanding the artillery of the 
guard on, 287 
“ Faerie Queen,” on the discharge of a can¬ 
non, extracted from, 266 
Falkirk, drivers desert the guns at battle of, 
269 
Farrington, Gen., letter to Major Williamson 
on the experiments at Mount’s Bay with 
spherical case shot, 417 
Fave, on the battle of Zorndorff, 268 
Feint attack at Albuera, 411 
“ Fer d’Espengne,” 8 
“ Fer d’auge,” ib. 
Fergusson, General, extract from letter on 
the operations at the Cape of Good Hope, 
401 
“Fermeture,” 70 
Field Artillery Committee, 312 
——, opinions on the B.L. and M.L. systems, 
by, 327 
Field artillery first comes into general use in 
Flanders, 265 
-■, rifled, comparative advantages of B.L. 
and M.L. system for, 312 
-, rough notes on the history of, 265 
—-—, trials of B.L. and M.L. rifled guttS 
against wooden screens for, 319 
Field guns, rifled, shells for, 305 
weights, &c., of, 223 
“ Figure of merit,” 49 
symbol of, 326 
