[599] “Elementary Lectures on Artillery,” by Major C. H. Owen and Captain T. L. Dames, Woolwich, 1861. [600] Reinaud and Favé, p. 44. [601] “Quand tu voudras attaquer ton adversaire, mets le feu à la rose,” ib., 38. “Tu mets le feu aux roses et tu lances la marmite,” ib., 43. [602] “Inventions and Devices,” 1578, p. 39. [603] For instance: “Adviserez que le trou d’icelle (the shell) soit du costé de la bouche dudit mortier.” _Modelles, Artifices du Feu_, &c., 1598, p. 163. [604] As happened centuries afterwards with Shrapnel’s fuzes when cut “short.” [605] “Art of Shooting in Great Ordnance,” p. 13. [606] Ib., pp. 30, 31. [607] Among the stores detailed by Firemaster T. Wright in his “Perfect Narrative,” &c., of his expedition to Jersey, 1651, are found “1000 Fuzes for shels, 600 hand Fuzes.” [608] “Invention die bishero noch nit ist gebraucht worden.” _Archeley_, 1621, p. 119. The Spanish _Tratado de Artilléria_, 1613, I have not seen and rely upon the French and German translations, both by J. T. Brey, the former entitled _Artillerie_, &c., the latter _Archeley_, &c. Either of them has been carelessly executed—perhaps both of them. [609] “La bouche du tuyeau sur la poudre de la charge de la ditte pièces.” _Artillerie_, p. 119. [610] “150 schritt”—geometrical paces, I presume: 1 geom. pace = 5 ft. [611] _Wachthaus._ The French translation has _corps de garde_. [612] Blom’s _Kristian d. IV.’s Artilleri_, p. 277. [613] P. 63 _bis_. [614] Pr. Lieut. W. Ritter von Breithaupt, _Der Entwicklungsgang und die darauf gegründete Systematik der Zünderwesens_, &c., 1868, p. 18. [615] “Gegen das Ende des 16 ten Jahrhunderts fiel man darauf, Granaten aus Kanonen zu schiessen. Da aber die ersten Versuche nicht mit gehöriger Vorsicht, und überhaupt mit zu starker Pulverladung angestellt wurden, so misslangen sie, und man behielt die sicherere Art, sie aus Haubitzen zu werfen, bei.” Major C. von Decker, _Geschichte des Geschützwesens_, &c., 1822, p. 74. [616] In firing against buildings, “ist es nicht eben von nöthen auf das Tempo genau Achtung zu geben.” Mieth, _Artill. Recent. Praxis_, Leipsig, 1683, lib. iii. c. 34. [617] In firing against troops, “the fuze must have such a length as ... to set fire to the powder as soon as the shell touches the ground.” “Universal Mil. Dict.,” Captain G. Smith, R.A., 1779; “Laboratory.” [618] A Chinese shell was thrown from the deck of one of our vessels into the sea, I forget by whom, in the attack on the Peiho Forts, 1860. [619] As was done more than once during the dynamite outrages in London some years ago. [620] At the siege of Gloucester, during the Great Rebellion, a grenado fell near Southgate; “but a woman coming by with a pail of water, threw the water thereon and extinguished the phuse thereof, so that it brake not.” Vicars’ “Jehovah Jireh,” 1646, i. 402.