INDEX. 
483 
Waterloo, losses at, 400, 421 
——, massing of guns at, 272 
-, number of forces at, 421 
•--, troop of liorse artillery inspected by 
Marshal Marmont, immediately before 
the battle of, 272 
Wear and tear to horses in draught, with 
breast harness (French), minute on the, 
288 
Weight of guns at different periods, variations 
in the, 273 
Wellesley, Marquis, letter from Sir John 
Sinclair to, 407 
——, complains of the defect of artillery 
horses, 271 
——, letter to Colonel Shrapnel, 406 
•—-—- Sir John Sinclair, ib. 
--, march upon Copenhagen of, 405 
Wellington, Duke of, artillery operations on 
the Nivelle, described by, 399 
——, improvement of artillery maUriel by, 
271 
■ --, report of service of artillery at Talavera, 
409 
Westley Eichards* rifle, mechanical arrange¬ 
ment of, 241 
-- weight of bullet, 246 
Weston, William de, tried for surrendering 
the castle of Odruik, 11 
Wheels, mountain train gun carriage, weight 
and dimensions of, 454 
■ -, muzzle-pivoting gun carriage, 253 
Whinyates, Gen. Sir Edward Charles, memoir 
of, vii 
--, order issued from Horse Guards on his 
relinquishing the command at Wool¬ 
wich, xi 
■ -, vote of thanks passed to, on his leaving 
Pontefract, x 
“ White fuzes,” 411 
White iron, analysis of, 234 
Whitworth, Mr, extract from evidence before 
Committee on built-up guns, 218 
- gun, testing time fuze for, 321 
■ - guns, formula to calculate the initial 
velocity for, 189 
-—- system of rifling guns, 222 
“ Wieshchun,” constructed by Messrs Cockerill 
& Co., 102 
Williamson, Major, letter to, from General 
Farrington on the experiments at Mounts’ 
Bay, with spherical case shot, 417 
Wilson, Major, on the surrender of Fort 
Amsterdam, 400 
Wilson, Lt. E.A., on the use of the shrapnel 
at Copenhagen, 405 
Windage, method of reducing in the 14th 
century, 36 
—— of guns at various periods, variations 
in, 274 
Windmill Hill, Gibraltar, 295 
Wood, late General Sir George, letter to 
Shrapnel, 421 
Wood time fuze, Boxer’s, 426, 457 
Wooden screens used with percussion fuzes to 
produce the effect of a time fuze acting in 
front of target, at trial of B.L. and M.L. 
field guns, 319 
Wooden vessels, iron-plated, Eussian, 99 
Woolwich guns: their projectiles, charges, 
&c., 208 
-— -, charges for, 211 
-—, difference of initial velocity in, 209 
--, object of increasing spiral for, ib. 
--, projectiles for, 209-211 
-, letter from Committee to Board of 
Ordnance, on experiments carried on by 
Shrapnel at, 391 
■-, troops reviewed with contract drivers 
with long whips at, 271 
Working B.L. and M.L. field guns, testing 
comparative ease of, 321 
Y. 
York, Duke of, landing of artillery of, in Low 
Countries, 270 
Ypres, invested by English and men of Ghent, 
16 
Z. 
Zinc studs, 65 
Zorndorff, Fave’s remark on the battle of, 268 
“ Ziindnadelgewehr,” 440 
