Fuze, concussion, first English (1846), 245 —— hand (1651), 236 —— percussion, earliest proposal of (1596), 244 —— —— first English (1850), 245 —— time, Boxer’s wooden (1849), 243 —— —— calculated, the phrase (1779), 210 —— —— early Arabic, 231 —— —— early Danish, 237 —— —— early English (1543), 235 —— —— proposed adjustment of (1596), 239 —— —— length of early, constant, 237 —— —— nineteen in English service (1850), 242 —— —— short, difficulties with, 241 —— —— short, Shrapnel’s mode of cutting, 242 —— —— Shrapnel’s, rendered useless by damp (1807), 213 —— —— Ufano’s experiments with (_cir._ 1600-13), 236 Gama, Vasco da, in Calicut (1498), 117 Gauttier on _al-Bunduqani_, 92 Geber. _See_ Jabir Gentoo Laws, code of, 105 Gibbon on firearms in China, 140 —— on gunpowder, 111 —— on Jesuits in China, 126 Gibraltar, hot shot at siege of (1779-83), 217 —— shell-fire from guns at, 209 Glazing gunpowder, mentioned in 1684, 182 Golail, a two-stringed long-bow, 93 Gold, alchemical preparation of, resembled that of saltpetre, 153 “Golden Garlands,” an Arabic firework, 247 Grain, influence of size of, of gunpowder, 195 Gram, the sword of Sigurd, 105 Greek fire, a Crusader’s term, 49, 76 —— —— composition of, 31 Greenhill, Professor, on stability of projectiles, 215 Grenados, spherical shell, 238 Guisarme, meaning of, 117 Gun, or gonne, triple use of, 7 —— pressure on bore of, with different projectiles, 206 —— nature of earliest missiles for, 199 —— flint-lock for, invention of (1778), 230 Gun-carriages, field, introduced (1461-83), 114 Gun-metal, composition of, 203-4 —— price of, 204 Gunpowder, Arderne’s recipe for (_cir._ 1350), 177 —— Friar Bacon’s recipe for (_cir._ 1248), 157, 177 —— Chinese, badly made, 134 —— composition of, at various times, 197-98 —— compressed, 222 —— corned (grained), advantages of, 182 —— —— too strong for guns at first, 183 —— damage to, by damp, 180 —— definition of, adopted here, 3 —— effects of invention of, 111 —— fouling of serpentine (ungrained), 179 —— French adopt one kind for all arms, 194 —— ingredients of, carried separately at first, 181 —— invention of (_cir._ 1248), 162 —— Louis XIV.’s Ordonnances about, 193 —— price of English, at various times, 184 —— ramming-home serpentine, 181 —— silent, 197 —— smokeless, 196 —— sulphurless, 196 —— tests of, 192-94 Gunstone-maker’s wages in the sixteenth century, 205 Halhed on early Indian firearms, 105 Hälle on time-fuzes and percussion shell (1596), 239, 244 Harquebuss, _see_ Arquebuse Hassan er-Rammah (_d._ 1295), 17 Havre, experiments with naphtha at (1758), 49 Hawker, Colonel P., invents percussion cap (1818), 245 Heraclea, siege of (805), 91 History, Chinese, the Jesuits on, 126 Homer, no mention of incendiaries in, 29