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INDEX. 
Field pieces, ranges of, at different periods, 
275 
Field service, percussion fuze for, 193 
Field telegraphs, arrangements of, in the 
invasion of Bohemia, 357 
Firing, rates of, with B.L. and M.L. guns, 321 
Fissures in cave of Windmill Hill, 298 
Flanders, field artillery first came into general 
use in, 265 
Flaws in welds of coiled barrels, 217 
Flemings, 15,000 slain at Rosebecque, 15 
-, Audenarde besieged by, 14 
Flight of grape shot, Shrapnel’s remarks on 
the, 389 
Flint implements found in Windmill Hill cave, 
Gibraltar, 300 
Floating batteries in Russia, 100 
-monster guns required for destruction 
of, 229 
Florisdorff, intrenched camp at, 276 
•- sketches of redoubts at, 278-281 
-— stratagem of Murat at bridge of, 276 
te Flying fire,” receipt for making, 22 
Fontenoy, English guns deserted by the drivers 
at battle of, 269 
Forbes’ barrier, Gibraltar, human skull found 
near, 297 
Foreign Artillery, proceedings of, 61 
- ordnance, comparison of British and, 
222 
Formation of Royal Regiment of Artillery, 267 
Formula to calculate the initial velocity for guns, 
189 
Formulae for measuring the accuracy of guns, 
63 
Fort Ali Musjid, evacuation of, 423 
Fort Amsterdam, the surrender of, 400 
Fort Cox, report of relief of, 424 
Fort Fisher, six guns burst whilst bombarding, 
226 
Fortifications of Copenhagen, regulations for 
the measurement of distances for the use 
of, 41 
Fortified camp, “ Maister Cornelliis,” artillery 
attack of, 414 
Fortresses, Russian commission to enquire 
into the provision of ordnance for, 63 
Fossils of minute shell breccia, 297 
Foy, General, on the defeat of Vimiera, 408 
France, the action of shrapnel not understood 
in, 422 
Fraser, Mr, proposed modification of built-up 
ordnance, 219 
Frazer, Sir Augustus, description of a portion 
of the battle of Waterloo by, 400 
r- ' extracts from letter on the siege of 
St Sebastian from, 419 
—— letter to Shrapnel from, 410 
Frazer’s “ Letters,” extract from, 272 
Frederick the Great, brigade of horse artillery 
formed by, 268 
—conduct of cavalry of, at battle of 
Molwitz, ib. 
Freeth, Lieut.-CoL, R.A., percussion fuze, de¬ 
signed for and adapted to the form of 
case, used for shells for rifled guns for 
field service, 193 
■-, letter to Secretary R.A. Institution, 113 
French account of attack of Gibraltar, 389 
--the defence of “ Maister 
Cornelliis,” 414 
—— army at Rosbecque made to recoil “ one 
pace and a half,” 15 
French artillery harness, minute of report rela¬ 
tive to the campaign in Mexico, 290 
- . . of off wheel horse, of, 283 
- - —--, technical expressions re¬ 
lating to, ib. 
-breast harness, opinion of the Colonel 
Director on, 289 
- bricole, equipment of half-battery for 
trial with, 286 
———, Calabrians revolt against the, 404 
-complain at Badajos of poisoned balls, 
418 
—— draught, minute on the wear and tear 
to horses in, 288 
-, English artillery highly complimented 
by the, 407 
—— harness, minute on the maintenance and 
repair of, 289 
- guns, massing of, at battle of Yittoria, 
272 
—— losses at Albuera, 411 
——-- Barossa, 410 
- 1 Busaco,.412 
- . ..Maida, 404 
-Maister Cornelliis, 414 
• ■ ■ - ■— Salamanca, 416 
■ . Talavera, 409 
-the passage of the Douro, ib. 
-Waterloo, 421 
-projectiles for rifled field guns, 223 
—— rifled field guns, table of weights, &c. 
of, ib. 
— . siege or garrison ordnance, nature 
and weights of, 225 
—— service, analysis of two systems of 
draught in the, 287 
■■■■ -, drivers not regularly enlisted 
in, till the beginning of the present cen¬ 
tury, 269 
- systems of rifling, 222 
Friction tubes, 456, 458 
Friedland, massing of guns at battle of, 
272 
Froissart, on siege of Audenarde, 14 
--Odruik, 11 
--St Malo, 23 
-, on the passage of the Lys, 13 
Fry, Major, ranges of guns at the end of the 
18th century from a MSS. note book of, 
275 
Fuente d’honor, effect of case shot at, 411 
Fuze hole for common shell, Woolwich guns, 
210 
Fuze, Armstrong, time, durability tested, 325 
-, Boxer’s, wood time for M.L. ordnance, 
426 
— -, 5 seconds, 456 
--, 9 seconds, for M.L, ordnance, 426 
-, 10 seconds, 456 
--, 15 seconds, 457 
---, 20 seconds, 429 
* -, Freeth’s percussion, 193 
-, pellet for, 194 
—-— Pettman’s, general service percussion, 
description of, 292 
-, action of, 294 
— . ., composition of, 293 
-, land service, 76 
-— , action of, 78 
—^-•, percussion, 74 
-, sea service, 80 
-, short, recom m ended at siege of Gibral¬ 
tar, 389 
