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
— Table of Amplitudes 151
— Table of Natural Sines, Tangents, and Secants 152
_GUNS_—Calibers of English and Foreign 153
— Length and Weight of English Brass 154
— Ditto French Brass 155
— Ditto English and French Iron 155
— Ranges with One Shot from Brass 156
— Ditto Two Shot 157
— Ditto small Charges from 157
— Effects of Case Shot from Battalion 158
— Ranges from Iron 159
— Ditto of 5½ Inch Shells from 24 Pr. 160
— Ditto 4⅖ Inch Ditto 12 Pr. 161
— Ranges from French 162
_GUNPOWDER_—Proportion of Ingredients for,
by different Powers in Europe 162
— Manner of Proving it at Pursleet 163
— Marks on the Barrels, by which the different Qualities
are distinguished 164
— French Proof of 165
_HAIR CLOTH_—Dimensions and Weight of 166
_HAND BARROW_—Ditto 166
_HANDSPIKES_—Ditto 166
_HARNESS_—Ditto for Horses and Men 166
_HORSES_—Military Gait, and other Particulars
respecting them 166
— Manner of Regulating the Weight they ought to Draw 166
— Number of, allowed to Artillery Carriages 167
_HOWITZERS_—Dimensions and Weight of English and French 168
— Natures of and by different Powers 169
— Ranges from 170
_LEVELLING_—Table shewing the Difference between
the true and apparent Level 172
— Manner of applying this Table to finding Heights
and Distances 172
_LOAD_—How regulated for Artillery Carriages 174
_MAGAZINES_—For Powder—Dimensions of _Temporary_
ones for Batteries 175
— _Permanent_, for fortified Places 175
_MATCH, Slow_—Composition for, and manner of making
— Time it will burn 177
— _Quick_—of Cotton or Worsted 178
_MARCHING_—Rate of, for Cavalry and Infantry 178
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