472 
INDEX. 
Jerome’s attacking columns at Waterloo, 
effect of shrapnel on, 422 
Jhelum, artillery battle on the banks of the, 
423 
Jones, Gen. Sir Harry, description of British 
artillery practice against St Sebastian, 
by, 398 
Jones, Maj.-Gen. R.E.,on the effects produced 
by shrapnel at siege of St Sebastian, 418 
Jones, Col., R.E., on the effect of spherical 
case at defence of Tarifa, 415 
Journal during the Bhootan campaign of 
1864, 65, 116 
“Journal of Sieges,” extract from, on the effect 
produced by spherical case, 415 
K. 
Keeping qualities of cartridge for Snider con¬ 
verted rifle, 263 
Kellerman’s charge restores the battle of 
Marengo, 272 
King of Denmark, “ Order of the Danebrog,” 
conferred on Mr Madsen by, 38 
King of Prussia’s instructions to Crown 
Prince before battle of Sadowa, 381 
“ Koldun” constructed by Messrs Cockerill & 
Co., 102 
“ Kolnische Zeitung,” account of ammunition 
expended by Austrian army in the cam¬ 
paign of 1866, narrated in the, 381 
Kolza, Mr, system of building double turret 
iron-clad boats, 101 
Koniggratz, battle of, 360 
■-, casualties of Prussians at, 382 
--, disposition of artillery at, 306 
-, official list of Austrian losses at, 384 
“ Kreml,” Russian iron-clad battery, dimen¬ 
sions, &c., of, 101 
Krupp’s B.L. guns in Russia, trials against 
armour plates with, 63-72 
-, bursting of, 60 
- for fortress of Cronstadt, 64 
-, relative cost per ton, 219 
-—, suited for the armament of coast 
batteries, 72 
Kudraftseff, Mr, construction of Russian boats, 
102 
Kyber Pass, advance into the, 423 
L. 
Dally, council of war, at siege of Madras, held 
by, 436 
-, intercepted letter of, 438 
• - reconnoitres Chingleput, 432 
- warned off by his own subordinates, 436 
Lancaster carbines, length of barrel for, 247 
- system of rifling guns, 222 
Landman, Lieut.-Col. R.E., on the detractive 
effects of spherical case shot, 407 
Land service percussion fuze, 76 
Laon, cannon manufactured in 1356, for town 
of, 2 
Large cannon at Montmorot, 13 
Lascars, loss of, at siege of Madras, 437 
“ Latnik,” constructed by Messrs Carr & Co. 
102 
“ Lava,” constructed by Messrs Siemianikoff 
and Poletika, ih. 
Lawson’s MSS., account of experiments on 
Acton Common, with coehorn and royal 
shells, from, 388 
Lead, comparison of price of, in 1375 and 
1865, 10 
-cups for L.S. percussion fuze, 77 
- projectiles of 1375, 13 
Lecture on the campaigns of 1866 in Germany, 
355 
- on the siege of Madras, 431 
Lefaucheux pin cartridge, 243 
Lefroy, Brig.-Gen. R.A., memorandum to the 
Ordnance Select Committee, on the effect 
of the position of the vent on initial 
velocity, 200 
Leipsic, disposition of Tilly’s guns at battle of, 
266 
-, massing of guns at battle of, 272 
Length of barrel for rifles, remarks on, 247 
-bore, mountain gun, 454 
- common shell, 455 
-double shell, 457 
-shrapnel shell, Boxer’s, 456 
- Hales’ 6-pr. rocket, 457 
Letter of Major Spicer on the effects produced 
by spherical case shot, 401 
- Lieut.-Col. Freeth, to Secretary R.A. 
Institution, 113 
Lines of brigades, 441 
Lille, cannon purchased in 1368 by citizens 
of, 5 
-, entry of payment from archives of, 5 
-, gunpowder pounded by hand, from 
accounts in archives of, 12 
List of vessels composing the iron-clad fleet of 
Russia, 99 
Loads of mules, mountain train, 452, 453 
Lomax, Corporal John, 7th Hussars, glimpse 
of retreat to Corunna, by, 409 
Longitudinal strain of a gun, 213 
Long, Major-General, extract from a letter of, 
on the war services of General Whinyates, 
ix. 
Loss of guns at Tarragona, 270 
Losses at Albeuro, 411 
-Barossa, 410 
•-- Busaco, 412 
-Koniggratz, 382 
■-Maida, 404 
- Salamanca, 416 
-- Siege of Madras, 437 
-Skalitz, 384 
-—- Talavera, 409 
-Yittoria, 417 
-Waterloo, 400, 421 
Low Countries, Duke of York’s artillery 
land in the, 270 
Lumley, Maj.-Gen., cavalry affair at Usage, 
almost bloodless, reported by, 399 
Lyon, Jehan de, fled to Metz, 5 
Lyons, late Capt., R.A., experiments in con¬ 
nexion with the proof of ordnance, 202 
Lys, passage of the, 13 
M. 
Macdonald, Major, R.H.A., letter to Shrapnel 
on the destructive fire of his shells at 
Salamanca, 416 
Machiavelli, prolonge invented by, 265 
Machine for Hales’ rockets, 458 
