ItfDEX. 
481 
Stores and ammunition, mountain train, pack¬ 
ing of, 452, 453 
• -and ordnance, in the Tower, in time of 
Edw. III., list of, 18 
-, Calais, as a depot of English military, 
-for defence of the town of Arras, details 
of, 6 
• -for the service of bombards, items in 
inventory of, 33 
-, list of prices of, 10 
—— of Dover Castle (1372), indenture of, 
25 
Storm’s rifle, mechanical arrangement of, 
240 
Strata of Gibraltar rock, 295 
Stratagem of Murat at bridge of Florisdorff, 
276 
“Strelec,” Eussian boat, constructed by Mr 
Kudraftseff, 102 
Strength of B.L. and M.L. field guns tested 
with increased charges, 324 
St Sauveur le Yicomte, document relating to 
cannon throwing large stones at siege 
of, 7 
St Sebastian, effect of British artillery practice 
against, 398 
——, effects produced by shrapnel at the siege 
of, 418 
Studs, accuracy of projectiles provided with, 
65, 69 
Suffolk, General Lord, interview with Mr 
Canning, on the subject of shrapnel 
shells, 403 
Summary of experiments, in Eussia, with 
Krupp’s B.L. guns, 72 
-of peculiar features of ammunition for 
Snider converted rifle, 264 
Supersession of steel shell, 237 
Superior penetrative effects of chilled shot 
Over steel, ib. 
“ Surirey de St Eemy,” extract from, 332 
Surtees, description of passage of the Tor- 
desillas by, 411 
-, on the losses of the two armies at 
Barossa, 410 
-, on the pursuit after Vittoria, 416 
Sutton, experiments to ascertain the greatest 
ranges of spherical case shot made at, 
415 
Swedish artillery, of the Thirty Years’ War, 
germ of mobility of field artillery trace¬ 
able to, 268 
- rifles, mechanical arrangement s of, 240 
System of built-up guns, introduction of, 
33i 
Systems of breech and muzzle-loading for 
rifled field artillery, evidence on the two, 
313 
- of rifling, 220 
T. 
Table of accuracy of B.L. and M.L. field guns, 
317 
«—-initial velocities of B.L. and M.L. 
field guns, 316 
- the ranges of field pieces at different 
periods, 275 
*“-results of actual experiments with 
B.L. and M.L. rifled field guns, 326 
Table of vessels, composing the Eussian iron¬ 
clad fleet, 99 
- weights of projectiles, and charges 
of American S.B. ordnance, 227 
-, shewing effects of penetration on 
“ Hercules ” target, 108 
• '■■■■ heights and distances at dif¬ 
ferent stages of St Michael’s Cave, 
Gibraltar, 304 
--- result of 100 rounds of solid 
spherical shot, fired from the unbushed 
68-pr. to test range, accuracy, and recoil, 
with elongated cartridges, 197 
- results of firing 60 rounds from 
68-pr. unbushed gun, with cartridges 
made of different lengths and diameters, 
198 
-the loss of initial velocity by 
decrease in the size of the bore, 221 
——-the variation in the charges of 
powder used at various periods, 274 
-the variations in the weight of 
gun carriages at different periods, 273 
- the variations in the weight of 
guns at different periods, 273 
- —- - the variations in windage of 
guns at different periods, 274 
—- the velocity in feet per second 
of projectiles fired from French and 
British rifled field guns, 224 
- - - the velocity of solid shot fired 
from a 68-pr. unbushed gun, with the 
cartridge made up of different lengths and 
diameters, 197, 198 
-the velocity of solid spherical 
shot, fired from the bronze 68-pr. block, 
with “pellet” powder similar to that 
used by the committee on gunpowder, 
206 
-the velocity of solid spherical 
shot, fired with a charge of 14 lbs. L.G. 
powder, from the bronze 68-pr. block, 
bored up to 42-pr. calibre, 204 
“ Table of Eandoms,” extract from Eldred’s, 
275 
Tactical and general instructions for the I.E. 
northern army, 440 
-dispositions of Prussian troops in Bo¬ 
hemian war, 374 
Tactics, Beresford’s, 411 
Talavera, destructive effect of spherical case 
shot at battle of, 409 
-, losses of British troops at, 409 
-French, ib. 
-, services of the artillery at, ib. 
Tangential strain of a gun, 213 
Tangent scales, alteration in, on the introduc¬ 
tion of shrapnel, 396 
Target, “ Hercules,” impenetrable by the 
heaviest known ordnance, 111 
-, elongated cluster of shot on, 61 
-, normal, cluster of shot on, 49 
-, shot grouped on, 56 
-penetrated by steel elongated projectiles 
of different weights, 228 
-, vertical error of shot on, 52 
Targets to represent bodies of troops, experi¬ 
ments to test effects of segment and 
shrapnel shells against, 320 
Tarifa, defence of, 415 
Tarragona, loss of guns at, 270 
Tassagong, stockades at, 155,156 
“ Tassatorium,” 36 
