The bombardier, and pocket gunnerAdye, Ralph Willett
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The bombardier, and pocket gunner
Adye, Ralph Willett
Artillery -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Artillery drill and tactics
_DRAG ROPES_—Weight and Dimensions of 95
_EMBARKATION_—Of Ordnance and Stores 96
— Of Troops 99
_EXERCISE_—Of Artillery
— Duties of the Men attached to Field Guns or Howitzers,
with the full Complement, and with reduced Numbers 100
— Methods of advancing and retiring Field Artillery
_without Drag Ropes_ 104
— Duties of the Men in advancing and retiring
Field Artillery _with Drag Ropes_ 109
— Of Heavy Ordnance on a Battery with different
Complements of Men 112
— Of the Triangle Gin 115
— Of the Sling Cart 117
_FASCINES_—Dimensions and Uses of the different
Natures of, with the necessary Attentions
in making them 119
_FIRE SHIP_—Proportion of combustible Stores for 120
— Method of fitting out 122
— New Method of fitting out, to produce more external Fire 124
_FLINTS_—Number of, packed in a half Barrel;
with the Weight of, &c. 126
_FORTIFICATION_—Practical Maxims in building Field Works
with their Dimensions
— Permanent; Observations upon the different Parts of,
with their principal Dimensions 131
— Observations upon the Means of adding to the Defence of
Places by Outworks, &c. and on defilading a Place
from Heights 133
— Principal Dimensions of, according to Vauban 140
— Dimensions of Walls from 10 to 50 Feet high 142
_FUZES_—Composition for—Dimensions of 143
—Manner of finding the Length of, for any Range 144
_GABIONS_—Dimensions of, and Attentions in making them 145
_GIN TRIANGLE_—Dimensions and Weight of 146
_GRAVITY_—Table of specific Gravities 146
— Rules, to find the Magnitude of any Body from its Weight,
and the contrary 147
_GRAPE SHOT_—See _Shot_.
_GRENADES_—Distance to which they may be thrown 147
_GUNNERY_—In a nonresisting Medium
— How far it may be applied to Practice with the Help of
good Tables of Experiments 147
— Upon a horizontal Plane 148
— Upon inclined Planes 149
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