480 . 
INDEX, 
Shrapnel not understood in France, 422 
——, notices of the application of, at siege of 
Sebastopol, 424 
.- or segment shells for rifled field guns, 
weights of, 223 
—-for rifled siege or garrison 
ordnance, weights of, 225 
-, private official correspondence of Colonel 
Robe to Board of Ordnance on the effects 
of, 4° 7 _ . 
■-, proportion of, in Peninsular war, 408 
-, range of, at surrender of Fort Amster¬ 
dam, 400 
-, results with time fuze, 319 
.-, Sepoys repulsed by, 425 
-, Sir Wm. Robe’s confidence in, 409 
——, urgent application to Mr Percival on 
the subject of, 403 
-- used in America, 421 
Shrinking on portions of guns, method of, 
217 
Siege of Bayonne, list of ammunition for, 420 
- Calais by Edw. III., 6 
- Gibraltar, effect of large mortar shell at, 
389 
- Madras, 431 
-- St Sebastian, French account of, 418 
Siemianikoff and Poletika, Messrs, construc¬ 
tion of Russian boats “Lava” and 
“ Rerun ” by, 102 
Sikhs, defeat of 60,000 on the banks of the 
Jhelum, 423 
Simonasaki, shrapnel effectually used on the 
landing at, 425 
Sinclair, Sir John, on the effectiveness of 
spherical case shot, 402 
--, letter to Sir Arthur Wel¬ 
lesley on Shrapnel’s invention, from, 407 
—— -, urgent application to' Mr 
Percival on the subject of shrapnel shells, 
by, 403 
Sinclair, Lieut., on the effect of shrapnel at 
Salamanca, 416 
-, on the passage of the Bidassoa, 
420 
Single turret boats, or monitors, Russian, 
101 
Singleton, Major, R.A., repulse of the Sepoys 
at Mooltan, 425 
Sinking of Gibraltar, 301 
Situation of the Austrians at the close of the 
war in 1866, 367 
Skalitz, official list of Austrian losses at the 
action at, 384 
Skerrit, Col., extract from dispatch of, 415 
Sleford, John de, accounts of guns and stores 
in Tower (Edw. III.), 20 
Slessor, Captain, R.A., on the Woolwich guns: 
their projectiles, charges, &c., 208 
Slings (Spanish), used at Najara, 18 
Small arms, experiments in France with, 201 
Small guns, 13 
“ Small Plate ” target penetrated by steel 
elongated projectiles, 228 
<c Smerch,” double turret iron-clad boat, 101 
Smith, Sir Sydney, on the services of artillery 
at the battle of Maida, 404 
--, letter from, to Shrapnel in despair, 413 
Smith, W. P., letter to Shrapnel, 393 
Smooth-bored cast-iron American ordnance, 
nature and weights of, 227 
-guns, advantages of. substituting rifled 
for, 223 
Smyth, Stephen, account of payments to, 21 
Snider’s B.L, converted Enfield rifles, Boxer’s 
cartridge for use with, 243, 261 
-, action of bullet for, 262 
-, weight of bullet for, 244 
Soult, Marshal, extracts from letters of Gen. 
Rey to, 418, 419 
Southey, retreat to Corunna, extracted from. 
409 
Spanish rifled siege or garrison ordnance, 
nature and weights of, 225 
S. Pe, horse artillery “make fires to dry the 
roads ” at, 272 
Spencer’s repeating rifle, cartridge for, 
249 
Spenser’s “ Faerie Queen,” extract from, on 
the discharge of cannon, 266 
Spherical case, changed to name of Shrapnel, 
424 
-, complaints made against, 415 
-, effect of, at defence of Tarifa. 415 
-, effects of, at siege of Badajos, 418 
-, enumeration of the advantages of, 395 
-, extract from memoirs of Sir John 
Sinclair, on the effect of, 402, 3 
-—, letter from Major Spicer, on the effects 
produced by, 401 
-, P. A. Agnew, Adjt.-Gen., on the effects 
produced by, 414 
-, musket substituted for carbine balls in 
the, 416 
•-practice, rules laid down for, 396 
-, precautions against the misapplication 
of, 415 
-, table shewing result of 100 rounds, fired 
from the 68-pr. unbushed gun, 197 
Spicer, Major, letter on the effects produced 
by spherical case shot, 401 
“ Spiritual ” cases, 424 
“ Springalds,” 21 
St Archangel, cannon manufactured at, in 
1358, 26 
“ Steady plug,” Pettman’s L.S. fuze, 78 
Steel axletree arms, on mountain artillery 
saddle, 459 
——, comparison of price in 1375 and 1865, 
10 
- elongated projectiles, target penetrated 
by, 228 
- guns, experiments with nine Russian 
heavy rifled, 69 
-projectiles, results of experiments in 
Russia against iron plates with, 66 
-, law of penetration of iron plates, 
by, 190 
-, price per ton, 239 « 
-, used in the manufacture of cannon 
in 1375, 8 
- shell, supersession of, by chilled shot, 
237 
Steeple, bombards fired from top of, 28 
St Malo, besieged by English, 23 
St Michael’s cave, Gibraltar, 301 
——, table shewing heights and distances of 
different stages of, 304 
Stockades at Tassagong, sketches of, 155, 166 
-, trials of B.L. and M.L. fieldguns against, 
319 . 
Stone shot, first mention of in Italy, 27 
Stones used as projectiles for cannon, in 
France, 7, 9, 10 
-in England, 22, 25 
Storage and porterage of shot in 1374, 20 
