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A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the Duane, William

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A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the

Name: A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the
Author: Duane, William

Duane, William

English language -- Terms and phrases; Military art and science -- Dictionaries

The waggons, however, attached to the different parks of artillery in
  England, which have not been altered from the old establishment, are
  loaded with only the following number, and drawn by three horses:

          Kinds.       No. of Rounds.
  12    Prs. Medium,       66
   6    Prs. Heavy,       120
   6    Prs. Light,       138
   5¹⁄₂ Howitzer,          60

The horse artillery having waggons of a particular description, carry
their ammunition as follows:

                               |            |       | Car-|Total No.
                               |    Shot.   |       |cass-|with each
              KINDS.           |Round.|Case.|Shells.| es. |Piece.
  -----------------------------+------+-----+-------+-----+---------
  12 Prs. light, on the limber.|  12  |  4  |   4   |  00 }   92
  Do. ---- in one waggon.      |  52  | 10  |  10   |  00 }
  6 Prs. light, on the limber. |  32  |  8  |  00   |  00  } 150
  Do. ---- in one waggon.      |  97  | 13  |  00   |  00  }
  5¹⁄₂ In. How’r on the limber.|  --  |  5  |  13   |  00 }   73
  Do. ---- in one waggon.      |  --  | 10  |  41   |   4 }
  3 Prs. heavy, curricle.      |   6  |  6  |  00   |  00  } 136
  Do. ---- ammunition cart.    | 100  | 24  |  00   |  00  }

  _The following Proportion of Artillery, Ammunition, and Carriages,
  necessary for four French Armies of different Degrees of Strength,
  and acting in very different Countries, is attributed to Gribauvale,
  and is extracted from Durtubie, on Artillery._

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