478 
INDEX. 
Report of trials of muzzle-pivoting gun, 
254 
—— of operations at the Cape of Good 
Hope, under Sir David Baird, extract 
from, 401 
Reports on the two systems of draught in the 
French service, analysis of, 287 
Reserve ammunition, mountain train, details 
of, 457 
Resistance of fluids to the motion of solids, 161 
- of the air to spherical balls, ib. 
Result of 100 rounds of solid spherical shot, 
fired from the unbushed 68-pr., to test 
range, accuracy, and recoil, with elon¬ 
gated cartridges, 197 
Results of actual experiments with B.L. rifled 
guns, 326 
—— of experiments made by Hutton, to 
test the best position of the vent, 202 
— . . .with B.L. and M.L. guns 
taken out of a muddy ditch, 324 
..- . with muzzle-pivoting gun, 
259 
■ • ■ ■ with grape and case shot in 
1792 at Chatham, 390 
-of rates of firing B.L. and M.L. guns, 
321 
Retardation of B.L. and M.L. guns, experi¬ 
ments to ascertain initial velocity and, 
316 
Retreat of Waldeck battalion, 402 
Review of advantages claimed for breech¬ 
loading guns, 329 
- - -, disadvantages, 330 
Review of campaign of 1866 in Germany, 
370 
Revolt of the Calabrians, 404 
Rey, General, extracts from letters to Marshal 
Soult from, 418, 419 
“ Ribaudeaux,” 15 
<c Ribaudequins,” 14 
Richard II., exchequer accounts of Carisbrook 
castle, in reign of, 24 
— - directs that cannons and stones be 
purchased for the armament of castle of 
Brest, 22 
Richmond, Duke of, horse artillery introduced 
into the British service by, 270 
Rifle, American, mechanical arrangement of, 
242 
«— - , Chassepot, 241 
.-, Montgomery Storm’s, 240 
--, Sharp’s, 249 
-- —, Spencer’s, ib. 
— —•, Swedish, 240 
-, Westley Richards’, 241 
■ - , Snider converted, Boxer ammunition 
for, 261 
Rifled field artillery, comparative advantages 
of B.L. and M.L. systems for, 312 
— -, results of experiments 
with, 326 
— .— guns, shells for, 305 
—■ - -, British compared with 
foreign, 223 
- guns, advantages by substituting for 
smooth-bore, 68, 223 
--, conditions requisite to ensure 
accuracy of fire of, 221 
--, recent experiments in Russia, with 
heavy, 69 
-— siege or garrison ordnance, British com¬ 
pared with foreign, 225 
Rifles, American (breech-loading), 241 
-, breech-loading, grooves and rifling for, 
.—— — —. , length of barrels for, ib. 
" " "— 4 q —* mec ^ an i ca ^ arrangements of, 
Robe, Sir William, confidence of, in spherical 
case shot, 409 
-, equipped by Shrapnel for 
Peninsular War, 405 
--, one good round of artillery 
described by, 410 
■-, private official correspondence 
to the Board of Ordnance on the effects 
of spherical case shot, 407 
-, remarks on the passage of the Douro, 
409 
Rockets, Hales’ 6-pr., dimensions and weight 
of, 457 
-, machine for, 458 
Roli£a, destructive effects of spherical case 
shot at, 407 
——, losses at, 405 
Romorentin, orders of the Black Prince when 
besieging the castle of, 17 
Rosebecque, French army made to recoil 
“ one pace and a half” at, 15 
-, fifteen thousand Flemings slain at, 
ib. 
Ross’ troop of horse artillery, battery silenced 
by, 399 
Rough notes on the history of field artillery, 
265 
Rowley, Major, R.A., on the capture of 
Macomas Den, 424 
Royal Artillery at battle of Dettingen, com- 
* panies of, 268 
-, five brigades of, at battle of Minden, 
269 
Royal Artillery Institution, extracts from 
Birch’s MSS. in library of, 396 
Royal Artillerymen, Madras defended by, 431 
Royal Military Repository, account of experi¬ 
ment carried on at Gibraltar in 1787, from 
archives of, 387 
Royal Regiment of Artillery, formation of, 267 
Royal shells, experiments with, on Acton Com¬ 
mon in 1760, 388 
Rules for Austrian army, Benedek’s proclama¬ 
tion of, 440, 443. 
-conduct of escort for guns, 449 
- general guidance, 447 
--the commencement of an engage¬ 
ment, 446 
Russia, experiments with Blakely’s gun in, 
69 
--- w ith nine heavy rifled guns 
in, 59 
-, order for Blakely guns from, 62 
—recent experiments with heavy rifled 
guns, in, 59 
-result of experiments with steel projec¬ 
tiles against plates, 66 
--of practice made against iron 
plates in, 64 
-, summary of experiments made with 
Rrupp’s B.L. guns against armour plates, 
in, 72 
Russian armour-clad vessels, dimensions of, 
105 
- armour plates, 100 
■■ > B.L. guns, Krupp’s arrangement, 
trials against, 69 
