INDEX TO THE SUBJECTS, ETC.

PART I.

INFANTRY EXERCISE, MOVEMENTS, &c.

Sword Exercise.

PITCHING, AND STRIKING, TENTS.

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Musket, Flint lock 1

Percussion Small arms, length, weight, bore, charge, &c. 1

Blank cartridges 3

Manufacture of cartridges 3

Small arm ammunition, boxes, and barrels 5

Instructions for browning Gun barrels 5

Percussion firelocks, Instructions relative thereto 6

Infantry Exercise, and Movements;

Extracted from

“Field Exercise, and Evolutions of the Army.”

Paces, Length of, &c. 6

Flint firelocks, Manual, and Platoon exercise 7

Inspection, and Dismissal of a Company 8

Percussion firelocks, Manual, and Platoon exercise 8

Fusil exercise 9

The Manual, and Platoon exercise of Riflemen 10

Instructions for aiming with the Rifle musket 10

Words of command, for Funeral parties 11

COMPANY DRILL.

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1. Formation of the Company 11

2. Marching to the front 12

3. The Side, or closing step 12

4. The Back step 12

5. To form four deep 12

6. File marching 12

7. Wheeling from a halt 12

8. Wheeling forward by sub-divisions 12

9. Wheeling backward by sub-divisions 13

10. Marching on an alignement 13

11. Wheeling into line 13

12. Entering into a new direction 13

13. Counter-marching 13

14. Wheeling on the centre 13

15. Diagonal march 13

16. Increasing front of open Column halted 13

17. Increasing front of open Column on the march 13

18. To pass a Defile, by breaking off files 14

19. To move to a flank, in Sections 14

20. Forming Company, &c., from file marching 14

21. To form to either Flank, from open Column 15

22. To gain ground to a flank, by marching in echellon 15

23. To form the rallying square 15

Dismissing a Company off Parade 15

Inspecting a Company on Parade 15

MOVEMENTS OF A BATTALION.

1. Commands 16

2. Degrees of march 16

3. Marching in line 16

4. Wheeling 16

5. Movements 16

6. The Alignement 17

7. Points of formation 17

8. Dressing 17

9. Open column 17

10. Quarter distance, and close column 17

11. Echellon 18

12. Squares 19

13. Firings 19

Street firing 20

Formation of the Battalion 20

Evolutions of the Battalion 21

Movements of the Battalion from Line 21

14. The Battalion, halted, is to advance in Line 21

15. When a Battalion, advancing in line, is to charge 22

16. When the Battalion moving in Line passes a wood, &c., by the flank march of Companies 22

17. When the Battalion advances, or retires by half battalion, and fires 22

18. A Battalion in line, to move to attack, &c., to the front, &c. 23

19. A Battalion in line to retire over a bridge, &c., or retreat from the flank in the rear of the centre 24

20. A Battalion in line to march off in Column of Divisions, successively to a flank 24

21. When the Battalion, halted in line, is to form square 25

22. When the Battalion forms a square, &c., to protect baggage against Infantry 27

23. A Battalion halted, in line, to change front to the rear upon the centre 27

CHANGES OF POSITION OF THE BATTALION FROM LINE, BY MOVEMENTS OF THE OPEN COLUMN.

On a fixed point.

24. The Battalion to change position to the front on the right halted Company, by throwing forward the whole left 28

On a distant point.

25. The Battalion in line changes position by breaking into open column, marching up in column to the point where its head is to remain, and entering the line by the flank march of Companies 28

26. The Battalion in line changes position by breaking into open column, marching to a point where its head is to rest, and to which its rear divisions form by passing each other, and wheeling up 29

OPEN COLUMN MOVEMENTS.

27. When the leading flank of the column is changed by the successive march of divisions from the rear to the front 29

28. To change the wings of a column formed where the space does not admit of the flank movement 29

29. When the column is required to form a square 29

QUARTER DISTANCE, AND CLOSE COLUMN.

30. When a Battalion forms a close, or quarter distance column from line 30

31. When the column marches to a flank 31

32. When the column at quarter distance, moving, takes ground to right, or left, by the echellon march of sections 31

33. When a column, halted, is to wheel 31

34. When a column is to change its front by the wheel, and countermarch of sub-divisions round the centre 32

35. When a column is to open out to full, or half distance 32

DEPLOYMENTS.

36. When the Battalion, in column of Companies, deploys into line 33

ECHELLON FORMATIONS, AND MOVEMENTS.

37. When a Battalion, from line, wheels forward by Companies into echellon 34

38. When the Battalion, having wheeled from line into echellon, has marched, and halted, and is to form back parallel to the line it quitted 34

39. When the Battalion, having wheeled from line into echellon, has marched, and halted, and is to form up oblique to the line it quitted 34

40. When the Battalion formed in line, changes front, on a fixed flank Company by throwing forward the rest of the Battalion 35

41. When the Battalion changes front on a fixed flank Company by throwing back the rest of the Battalion 35

42. When the Battalion changes front on a central Company, by advancing one wing, and retiring the other 35

43. When, from Open column, the Companies wheel backward into echellon, to form line on the front Company 36

44. When from line the Companies of a battalion march off in echellon to the front, and again form line 37

45. When a Battalion in echellon of Companies is required to form square 37

46. When a Battalion marching in line is to take ground to a flank by the echellon movement 37

Light infantry. Signals, and sounds 38

Infantry sword exercise 38

Extension motions, and positions 38

Preparatory instruction with the sword 39

Review, or inspection exercise 40

Attack, and defence 40

Stick drill 40

Instructions for pitching, and striking tents 41

PART II.

CARBINE EXERCISE; SWORD EXERCISE, CAVALRY.

Royal Artillery. Carbine Exercise 43

Inspection, and dismissal of a Company 43

To fire a Feu-de-joie 44

Funeral exercise 44

Sword. Royal Artillery 44

Cavalry, sword exercise 45

Formation for Sword exercise, on foot 46

Formation for Sword exercise, mounted 46

Officers’ salute 46

PART III.

ORDNANCE, CARRIAGES, etc.

Names of parts. The Dispart. Point blank range 48

The Tangent scale. The sights. The Line of metal 49

The Centre of metal. Windage 49

The Vent. Bouching. Tertiating. Quadrating. Honey comb. Length. Calibre. Gun metal 50

Brass, and Iron guns 50

Service charges of powder. Point blank range of guns 51

Description of Howitzers, and Carronades 51

Description of Mortars, charges, ranges, &c. 52

Value of Brass, and Iron Ordnance 52

Proof of iron Guns, brass Guns 53

” Mortars, Howitzers, Carronades 54

Water proof of Ordnance 54

Marks on condemned Ordnance, and Shells 54

Instructions for the care, and preservation of iron Ordnance 55

Ingredients for coating, and lacquering iron Ordnance 56

Instructions for lacquering Shot, and Shells 56

To render Ordnance unserviceable, by Spiking, &c. 57

Unspiking Ordnance 58

Length, Weight, Calibre, and Charge of Ordnance generally used in the service 59, 60

CARRIAGES.

Garrison, Ship, Field gun carriages. Sleighs, equipment, &c. 61

Depression carriages 62

Weight of Field carriages, Limbers, &c. 63 to 67

Weight, and diameter of Wheels 67

Weight of Carriages for iron Guns, Howitzers, Carronades 68

Weight of Traversing platforms 68

Weight, and dimensions of Trucks 69

Weight, and dimensions of Mortar beds 69

PART IV.

RANGES, CHARGES, ELEVATIONS, &c.

BRASS ORDNANCE.

Medium 12 Pr. Light 12 Pr. }

9 Pr. Long 6 Pr. Light 6 Pr. }

Heavy 3 Pr. } 70

24 Pr. Howitzer. 12 Pr. Howitzer }

5½-inch heavy Howitzer }

8-inch Howitzer 32 Pr. Howitzer 71

Shrapnell shells 72

Ricochet practice with brass Ordnance 73

CHARGES FOR THE ROYAL NAVY.

For boats 73

High, medium, low 74

RANGE, ELEVATION, &c.

IRON ORDNANCE.

Guns 42, 32, 24, 18, 12, 9, 6 Prs. } 75

Carronades 68, 42, 32, 24, 18, 12 Prs. }

Shrapnell shells 68 Pr. Carronade, 8-inch Howitzer, 24 Pr. Gun, 18 Pr. Gun 76

Guns 12, 10, 8-inch } 77

Carronade gun 32 Pr. Howitzers. 8 and 10-inch }

Guns 56, 68 Pr. 78

Gun 8-inch 79

Ricochet, firing 79

” practice 80

MORTARS.

Practical rules for charge, range, &c. 80

Practice, 13, 10, 8, 5½, 4⅖-inch mortars 81

Greatest charges, and ranges 82

PART V.

STORES, IMPLEMENTS, COMBUSTIBLES, &c.

Balls, light, smoke. Carcasses 83

Cartridges for guns, howitzers, carronades 85

Fuzes, old pattern, Boxer’s, metal 86

Grease. Grenades, hand 87

Gun cotton 88

Gunpowder, manufacture, proof, marks 89

” Magazines. Barrels. Boxes 90

Handbarrows. Handspikes. Levers. Lights, blue 91

Lights, long, signal. Match, quick, slow 92

Parachute light ball, Boxer’s. Pendulums 93

Portfires, common, percussion, miners’, slow, coast guard 94

Quoins. Rockets, signal 95

Shells, common, naval, Shrapnell diaphragm 96

Shot, case, or canister, grape 96

Stool beds. Tubes, common, detonating, friction 98

Wadmiltilt. Wooden bottoms 99

PART VI.

FIELD BATTERY EXERCISE. DETAIL FOR ACTIVE SERVICE OF 9 Pr. TROOP OF HORSE ARTILLERY, 9 Pr. FIELD BATTERY, 18 Pr. FIELD BATTERY, 32 Pr. HOWITZER FIELD BATTERY, GUN AND SMALL ARM AMMUNITION RESERVE. INTERIOR MANAGEMENT OF A BATTERY. EMBARKING, AND DISEMBARKING. APPLICATION OF FIELD ARTILLERY. ENCAMPING, AND PICKETING. TENTS. HORSES. FORAGE. VETERINARY DIRECTIONS. CONGREVE ROCKET EXERCISE.

Telling off the Detachment. Posts of the Detachment 100

Change of position. Detail of duties. Changing round 101

Exercise with reduced numbers. Distances required 102

Names of parts of a Field gun carriage 102

Limbering up. Unlimbering. Moving with the Prolonge 103

Exercise with Drag-ropes 103

Formation of a Battery. Posts, and duties of Officers, &c. 104

MANŒUVRES OF A BATTERY OF SIX PIECES OF ORDNANCE.

1. To advance. 2. To retire. 3. To come into action. 4. To diminish, or increase intervals on the march 106

5. To take ground to a flank. 6. To make a half turn on the march. 7. To form column of divisions in rear of a flank. 8. To form column of divisions in front of a flank 107

9. To form column of divisions on the centre division 107

10. To change front to the rear 107

11. To change front to a flank 108

12. To advance from a flank, in column 109

13. To advance from the centre in double column of sub-divisions.

14. To move from a flank along the front in a column of divisions.

15. To advance from a flank in echellon of sub-divisions.

16. To advance from a flank in echellon of divisions 110

17. To retire from a flank in column. 18. To retire from the centre, in a double column of sub-divisions. 19. To retire from a flank by alternate half batteries in action 111

20. To break into column to a flank 111

21. To increase, and diminish the front 112

22. To bring the rear to the front, in succession on the march.

23. To form line on the leading division 113

24. To form line on the rear division. 25. To form line on the centre division 114

26. To form line to the rear on the leading division 114

27. To form line to the rear of the rear division. 28. To form line to the rear, on the centre division. 29. To form line to the reverse flank on the leading division 115

30. To wheel into line 115

31. To deploy on the rear division. 32. To deploy on the centre division. 33. To countermarch 116

34. From double column of sub-divisions, to form line to the front. 35. From double column of sub-divisions to form line to a flank 117

Inspection, and Review 117

EQUIPMENT OF A BATTERY.

Packing the entrenching tools, camp equipage, &c. 119

18 Pr. Gun 120

12 Pr. medium, Gun 121, 122

9 Pr. Gun 123, 124

Light 6 Pr. Gun 125, 126

8-inch Howitzer 127

32 Pr. Howitzer 128, 129

24 Pr. Howitzer 130, 131

12 Pr. Howitzer 132, 133

Weight of Riders, Harness, Ordnance, Carriages, &c., of a Field battery equipped 134

9 Pr. Troop of Horse Artillery. Detail for active service 135

Reserve of Gun, and Small arm ammunition. Horse Artillery 136

9 Pr. Field battery. Detail for active service 137 to 140

18 Pr. Field battery. Detail for active service 141

32 Pr. Howitzer Field battery. Detail for active service 142

Reserve of Gun, and Small arm ammunition. Detail 143

Gun ammunition reserve. Detail for Reserve Artillery 144

Small arm ammunition, reserve. Detail for Reserve Artillery 145

On the interior management of a battery 146

Embarking, and disembarking 149

Embarking guns, and carriages 149

Embarking the horses 150

APPLICATION OF FIELD ARTILLERY.

General remarks. Ammunition waggons 151

On the march. Advanced guard 152

Crossing fords. Passage of bridges 153

Crossing a bridge, passing a defile, &c. 154

Artillery, acting with other troops 155

ENCAMPING, AND PICKETING.

First method 155

Second method. To strike the encampment 157

Weight, dimensions, &c. of tents 158

Horses. Power in draught, &c. 158

Management of draught horses. Horse-shoes 160

Forage. Method of carrying, &c. 161

VETERINARY DIRECTIONS.

Cathartic mass 162

Febrifuge mass 163

Sedative mass 164

Diuretic mass 164

Alterative mass 164

Tonic mass 165

Anti-spasmodic draught 165

Vermifuge powder 166

Anti-purgation powder 166

Discutient powder 166

Astringent powder 167

Ophthalmic powder 167

Blistering liquid 168

Turpentine liniment 168

Turpentine ointment 168

Black oil 168

Hoof ointment 169

CONGREVE ROCKETS.

On firing rockets 169

Exercise of rockets 171

PART VII.

REPOSITORY COURSE.—SERVING, AND WORKING HEAVY ORDNANCE.[2]

Part 1.—Art. 1. Telling off the detachments 173

Art. 3. To shift a gun from the firing to the travelling holes, or vice versâ 176

Art. 4. Exercise of guns on siege carriages 176

Art. 5. Exercise of guns on dwarf, and casemate traversing platforms 177

Art. 6. ” ” on common traversing platforms 177

Art. 7. Disposition, and duties, Firing hot shot 177

Art. 8. Exercise of carronades 179

Art. 9. ” of guns, and carronades, on ship carriages 179

Art. 10. ” of ” on depressing carriages 180

Art. 11. ” of 10 and 8 inch howitzers 180

Art. 12. ” of mortars 180

Art. 13. Firing by night 182

Art. 14. Firing at moving objects 183

Part 2.—Art. 1. Lever, and handspike 183

Art. 2. Fulcrums, and props 184

Art. 3. Lifting jack 185

Art. 4. Rollers 185

Art. 5. Crab capstan 186

Art. 12. Sling cart 187

Art. 13. Sling waggon 189

Art. 15. Triangle gyns 190

Art. 16. Gibraltar gyn 193

PART VIII.

GUNNERY.

Practical rules 195

Results from experiments on the velocities of Shot, &c. 196

Theory, and practice of Gunnery 198

Double shotting. The effects of Wads 198

Penetration of Shot 199

Eccentric spherical Shot 201

Resistance of Iron plates, Oak plank, &c., against musketry, canister, grape-shot, hollow, and solid shot 203

Naval Gunnery 205

To estimate the distance between Vessels 206

Table A.—Heights of the different parts of Ships of war 207

Table B.—Angles subtended by the masts of Ships of war 208

Table C.—Tangent practice with 8-inch Gun: 32-Pr. Gun 209

Table D. ” with long 24-Pr., and long 18-Pr. Guns 210

Table E. ” with short 24-Pr., and short 18-Pr. Guns 211

Instructions for the exercise, and service of great guns, and shells on board Her Majesty’s ships 212

Arrangement for fighting both sides 214

Exercise for the 10-inch, or other revolving gun 216

Mortar exercise 217

Instructions for landing seamen, and marines with field pieces 218

Proportion of charges, spare powder, &c., for a 51-gun screw steam frigate, and 50-gun frigate 220

On naval bombardments 221

PART IX.

BATTERIES.—PERMANENT, AND FIELD FORTIFICATION.

Description of Batteries, Embrazures, &c. 223

Dimensions of parapet requisite to be proof 224

Dimensions of an elevated Gun battery 224

Directions for tracing a battery 224

Shelter from an enemy’s fire 225

Epaulments. Elevated sand-bag batteries 226

Half-sunken batteries. Sunken gun batteries 227

Ricochet batteries 227

Fascines 228

Gabions 229

Sod, or turf. Platforms 230

Alderson’s platform 231

Dimensions, and weight of platforms for guns, &c. 232

Carrying, and laying down, Gun, Howitzer, Mortar, and Madras platforms 233

Breach. To burst open gates of fortresses, &c. 233

Fortification, description of 234

Command. Rampart. Interior slope. Terreplein. Parapet. Banquette. Revetment. Berm 234

Tablette. Cordon. Escarp 235

Counterscarp. Faces. Flank. Bastions. Curtain. Front of fortification. Ditch. Covered way. Glacis. Places of arms. Sally-ports. Traverses 235

Citadel 236

Esplanade. Body of the place. Outworks. Tenaille. Ravelin Horn work. Crown-work. Lunettes. Tenaillons. Flèche. Caponiere. Cunette. Batardeau. Ramp. Cavalier 236

Parallels. Zig-zags, or roads of communication. Redan. Redoubt. Star Fort. Têtes de pont. Lines. Epaulment. Loop holes. Palisades. Fraises. Chevaux de frise. Abattis. Hurdles. Trous de loup 237

Permanent Fortification 238

Remarks, and general rules 238

Vauban’s first system.—Construction 240

Profile, or section of Vauban’s first system 242

Modern system, names of parts 243

Field Fortification 244

Remarks, and general rules 244

Capacity of field works 245

To find the quantity of earth for parapets, and banquettes 245

To find, rapidly, ditto, ditto 245

To compute the content of the ditch 245

To find the breadth of the ditch 245

Construction of field works 246

The redan. The lunette. The square redoubt. The pentagonal redoubt. The hexagonal redoubt. The circular redoubt. The star fort. The field fort with bastions, and half bastions 246

The bridge head, or tête du pont 247

Lines. Bridges. Passages. Traverses 247

Table—Dimensions of parapets, ditches, &c., of field works 248

Simple methods of tracing field works on the ground. Square redoubt. Pentagonal redoubt. Hexagonal redoubt. Octagonal redoubt. Front of fortification 249

PART X.

BRIDGES, AND PONTOONS.—SCALING LADDERS.

Bridges.—To find number of planks to form a float 250

To find number of casks to form a raft 250

To find the number of Boats, or Pontoons required to support a given weight 250

Pontoons.—Large pontoons 251

Small pontoons 252

Scaling Ladders 253

PART XI.

FIREWORKS.

Candles, Roman, Blue. Crackers 254

Earthquake, artificial. Fires of various colours. Wildfire. Gerbes 255

Iron filings. Iron sand 256

Leaders. Marroons. Mealing gunpowder. Paste for representing animals 257

Portfires for illuminations. Rain, gold, or silver. Rockets, line 258

Rockets, signal 259

Saltpetre pulverized 260

Serpents, or squibs. Shells. Showers of fire 261

Speckie. Spur fire. Suns, or wheels 262

Touch paper. Wheels, pin, or Catherine 264

PART XII.

MATHEMATICS.

Characters, Marks, or Signs 265

Reduction 265

Rule of Three, or Simple Proportion 266

Fractions 267

Reduction 268

Addition. Subtraction. Multiplication. Division 269

Rule of Three 270

Decimals.—Addition 270

Subtraction. Multiplication. Division 271

Reduction 272

Rule of Three 273

Duodecimals 273

Tables of Weights, and Measures; English, and French 274

Involution, or Raising of powers 277

Evolution, or Extracting roots 277

Table of Squares, Cubes, and Roots 280

Piling of Shot, and Shells 281

To find the number of balls in a complete pile 281

number of balls in any pile, base not exceeding 21 282

in an incomplete pile 283

Table for computing the content of piles 284

Cordage.—To find weight, and strength of a rope 285

Chains.—To find the weight of chains 285

To find the weight that may be lifted by a chain 286

Iron Rods.—To find the weight of round, and square iron rods 286

To find the weight that may be sustained, or lifted, by round iron rods 286

Timber.—To find the area of a plank 287

content of timber 287

weight of a tree 287

Tonnage.—Table of tonnage, and weight of carriages 288

To ascertain the tonnage of Sailing vessels 289

of Steam vessels 289

Mechanics.—Mechanical powers 290

The Lever 291

The Wheel, and Axle 292

The Pulley. Tackles 293

Combination of pulleys 294

The inclined plane 295

The Wedge. The Screw 296

Compound machines 297

Friction. Unguents 298

Transverse strength of materials 299

Adhesion of Nails, and Screws 300

Trigonometry.—Definitions 301

Methods of resolving Triangles 301

Useful theorems, and corollaries 302

Trigonometry without logarithms 303

Trigonometric ratios. Natural sines, and cosines 304

Application of trigonometry without logarithms 305

Table,—showing the reduction in feet, &c., upon 100 feet, at angles of elevation, and depression 306

Table, showing the rate of inclination of inclined planes, for angles of elevation 307

Surveying, and Reconnoitring.—Heights, and Distances 307

Methods of ascertaining Heights 307

1. By means of a pocket sextant 307

2. ” a portable barometer, and thermometer 308

3. ” the Reconnoitring protractor 308

4. By the shadow of the object 310

5. Where there is no shadow 310

6. By the tangent scale of a gun 310

7. By means of two pickets 310

Methods of ascertaining Distances 311

1. By means of the sextant 311

2. ” a pocket sextant 311

3. ” the prismatic compass 312

4. ” the Reconnoitring protractor 312

5. 6, 7, & 8. Pickets 312–4

9. ” the tangent scale of a gun 314

10. ” the peak of a cap 314

11. ” the report of fire-arms 314

To traverse Roads— By means of the Reconnoitring protractor, or other instrument 315

Sound.—Velocity of, &c. 315

To ascertain the distance, by the report of fire-arms 316

Gravity 316

Specific gravities of bodies 317

To find the magnitude, weight, or specific gravity of a body, or a fluid 318

Quantities of two ingredients in a compound 319

Diameter of a sphere, or globule 319

Table showing the weight of a cubic foot of materials 319

Motion, Forces, etc. Body 319

Density. Velocity. Momentum. Force. Gravity 320

Momentum. Amplitude. Time of flight. Time of descent 321

Practical Geometry. Definitions 322

To divide a line into two equal parts. To bisect an angle 324

To erect a perpendicular. To let fall a perpendicular 324

To draw a line parallel to a given line 324

To divide an angle 324

To find the centre of a circle 325

To describe an equilateral triangle, a square 325

To inscribe a square in a circle 325

” an octagon in a circle 325

On a line to describe all the polygons 325

To inscribe in a circle an equilateral triangle 325

” a hexagon, or a dodecagon 326

To inscribe a pentagon, hexagon, or decagon, in a circle 326

To find the angles at the centre, and circumference of a polygon 326

To inscribe a polygon in a circle 326

To circumscribe a circle about a triangle, or a square 327

” a square about a circle 327

To reduce a Map, or Plan 327

Mensuration of Planes 327

To find the area of a parallelogram 327

” of a triangle 328

” of a trapezium, or of a trapezoid 329

” of an irregular figure 329

” of a figure, having a part bounded by a curve 329

To measure long irregular figures 330

To find the number of square acres, &c. in preceding figures 330

” the area of a regular polygon 330

” diameter, and circumference of a circle 331

” the area of a circle 331

” the area of a circular ring 332

” the length of any arc 332

” the area of a sector 332

” of a segment, of a semicircle 333

” of an ellipsis, of a parabola, &c. 333

Mensuration of Solids.—Definitions 334

To find the superficies of a prism, or cylinder 334

” surface of a pyramid, or cone 335

” surface of the frustrum of a pyramid, or cone 335

” solid content of a prism, or cylinder 335

” content of the solid part of a hollow cylinder 336

” solidity of the frustrum of a cylinder 336

” content of a pyramid, or cone 336

” solidity of the frustrum of a cone, or pyramid 336

” surface of a sphere, or any segment 337

” solidity of a sphere, or globe 337

” ” hemisphere 337

” solid content of a spherical segment 337

” diameter of a sphere 338

” weight of an iron shot 338

” weight of a leaden ball 338

” diameter of an iron shot 338

” diameter of a leaden ball 339

” weight of an iron shell 339

” quantity of powder a shell will contain 339

” size of a cubical box to contain powder 340

” quantity of powder to fill the chamber of a mortar, or howitzer 340

” quantity of powder to fill a rectangular box 340

” quantity of powder to fill a cylinder 340

” size of a shell to contain a given weight of powder 341

” length of a cylinder, or bore of a gun to be filled by a given weight of powder 341

To find the content, and weight of a piece of ordnance 341

” content of a cask 341

Epitome of Mensuration 342

Of the Circle; Cylinder; Sphere, &c. 342

Of the Square; Rectangle; Cube, &c. 343

Table of the Surfaces, and Solidities of bodies 344

Of Triangles; Polygons, &c. 344

Table of the Areas of regular Polygons 345

Of Ellipses; Cones; Frustrums, &c. 345