INDEX. 
477 
Projectiles (chilled), greater uniformity of 
hardness and structure of, than steel, 237 
-- 3 superior effects of, over steel, for 
penetrative purposes, ib. 
-for American S.B. ordnance, weights of, 
226 
-- British and Foreign rifled siege or 
garrison ordnance, weights of, 225 
--French rifled field guns, 223 
-M.L. built-up ordnance, weights 
of, 227 
-- rifled field guns, weights of, 223 
- S.B. cast-iron American ordnance, 
weights of, 227 
-the Woolwich guns, different kinds 
of, 210 
-in flight, arrangement to photograph, 
115 
- of 450 lb. weight, cannon constructed to 
throw in 1377, 12 
-register of accounts at Bavenna, relating 
to price paid for, 25 
——, steel elongated, target penetrated by, 
228 
-, result of experiments with, in Eussia 
66 
-, stones used as, 7, 9, 10, 22, 25, 27 
- used in the 14th century, 36 
- with expanding bottoms, experiments 
with, in Eussia, 69 
Prolonge, invented by Machiavelli, 265 
Proportion of men to guns at Blenheim, 
Eamilies, and Malplaquet, 267 
Proposed method of obtaining the picture of 
a gun in the act of firing, 113 
- modification of built-up ordnance, 219 
Prussia, King’s instructions to Crown Prince 
of, before battle of Sadowa, 381 
Prussian army corps, in the campaigns of 
1866 in Germany, composition of, 379 
- artillery compared with Austrian, 442 
- cavalry, ib. 
- infantry, ih. 
.- mode of fighting, 440 
--- needle gun, cartridge for, 245 
--disparaged by Benedek, 444 
- rifled siege or garrison ordnance, nature 
and weights of, 225 _ 
-- strategy in Bohemia, 374 
-- system of leading shot, 73 
-- of rifling guns, 222 
Prussians, advance into Austria of, 364 
•-, casualties at Koniggratz of, 382 
“ Pycoys,” 21 
Q. 
“ Quarells,” 21 
Query of Shrapnel’s accounts, by Board of 
Ordnance, 397 
E. 
Eaglan, Lord, letters from the Duke of 
Newcastle to, xix 
-to General Sir W. Cator, 
from, xviii, xx 
Eamilies, proportion of men to guns at, 
Eanges, comparison of accuracy of guns at 
different, 55 
-- of field pieces at different periods, 275 
- of guns at the end of the 18th century, 
from a MS. note-book of Major Fry, ib. 
-of guns with different elevations, 47 
- of shunt gun, experimental, 107 
--, tables shewing elevation and times of 
flight in certain, 454 
——, size of test target for different, 57 
- with solid shot and segment shell, 
practical tests of, 315 
Bank and file, loss of, at Maida, 404 
-siege of Madras, 437 
—-*— Yittoria, 417 
Eansome, Messrs, manufacture of chilled 
ploughshares by, 232 
Bate of firing B.L. and M.L. field guns, 
trying the, 321 
Eavenna, extracts from registers of accounts, 
relating to price paid for projectiles 
at, 25 
Eeceipts for making “ Greek fire,” and “Flying 
fire,” 22 
Eecent experiments with heavy rifled guns 
in Eussia, 59 
Eecoil of B.L. and M.L. field guns, com¬ 
parative, 322 
Eectangles, system of probable, 46 
Bedeness, William de, keeper of the kings 
stores, 17 
Eedoubts at Florisdorff, sketches of, 278-281 
Eedusio, Andrea, form of bombard and cannon 
described by, 32 
Beeves, Lieut. E.A., case shot, for Woolwich 
gun, 211 
-trial of a, 320 
“ Eelation, par un temoin oculaire,” extract 
from, 421 
Eelative cost of large ordnance, 219 
-value of “ the three arms, ” doubts 
as to the, 385 
Eegimental Artillery train, companies of, 
267 
Eegulations for the measurement of distances 
by means of the electric tetegraph, for 
the use of the maritime fortifications of 
Copenhagen, 41 
Eemarks by Shrapnel, on the flight of case 
and grape, 389 
- by the Ordnance Select Committee on 
the completion of trial against “Hercules” 
target, 111 
- on military B.L. rifles and their ammuni¬ 
tion, 240 
-on the best position of the vent, 200 
—— on the passage of the Douro, 409 
Eepeating rifle, Spencer’s, sketch of cartridge 
for, 249 
Beport, Annual, 1865-1866, 83 
-, 1866-1867, 333 
Eeport of an experiment, at Shoeburyness on 
the 21st June and 7th Dec. 1865, to test 
the powers of resistance of the “Hercules” 
target, &c., 107 
- of firing 60 rounds from a 68-pr. un¬ 
bushed gun, with cartridges made up of 
different lengths and diameters, 198 
-of relief of Fort Cox, 424 
- of the commission appointed by His 
Majesty the Emperor of Eussia, to en¬ 
quire into the provision of ordnance for 
fortresses and for naval service, 63 
