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| PREFACE, |
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| AMMUNITION—For Small Arms—How carried, |
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| —For Artillery, see Artillery. |
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| AMMUZETTE—Its Length, Weight, &c. |
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| APRONS of Lead—Weight and Dimensions of, |
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| ARMS, Small—Their Weight and Dimensions, |
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| Balls for their Proof, Service, &c. |
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| ARTILLERY—1st. For the Field. |
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| —Divided into Battalion Guns, Park and Horse Artillery, |
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| —Ammunition and Stores for one Field Piece of each Nature, |
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| —Manner of carrying the Ammunition and Stores, |
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| —Load for a common Artillery Ammunition Waggon, |
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| —Load for a Horse Artillery Ammunition Waggon, |
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| —Proportion of Artillery, Ammunition, and Carriages |
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| for four French Armies, |
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| —Proportion of Ammunition carried with French Artillery, |
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| and with that of other Powers, |
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| —Movements and Positions of Battalion Guns, |
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| —Movements and Positions of Artillery of the Park, |
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| —Line of March for Three Brigades of Field Artillery, |
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| —2d. Artillery and Ammunition for a Siege— |
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| Considerations in estimating them, |
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| —Proportion demanded for the Siege of Lisle, |
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| —Arrangement and Position at a Siege, |
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| —3d. Artillery and Ammunition for the Defence |
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| of a Fortified Place—Manner of estimating them, |
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| —Arrangement of the Artillery, |
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| —Expenditure of Ammunition, |
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| AXLETREES—Dimensions of, in Wood or Iron, |
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| BALLS—of Lead—Manner of Packing them, |
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| —Manner of finding their Diameters and Weights |
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| BARRELS for Gunpowder; their Dimensions and Content |
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| —Budge do. |
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| BASKETS, Ballast—Dimensions of |
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| BATTERIES—Dimensions of, for Guns, Mortars, and Howitzers |
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| —For Ricochet firing, |
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| —For the Defence of a Coast, |
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| —Manner of estimating the Quantity of Materials for, |
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| —Tools required for the Construction of |
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| —Estimate of the Quantity of Earth which may be removed |
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| in a given time, |
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| BEDS—Dimensions and Weight of, for Mortars and Guns, |
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| BOXES, for Ammunition—Dimensions and Weight of, when |
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| filled and empty; and the Number of Rounds contained by |
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| BOMB KETCH—Instruction for the Management of a, in Action, |
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| —Proportion of Stores for, |
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| BREACH—Manner of forming one; and Time required |
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| to make it practicable, |
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| BRIDGE—Manner of laying one, of Pontoons; Weight it will |
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| bear; and Precautions required in passing over it, |
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| CAMPS—Manner of laying out the front of, |
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| for Infantry and Cavalry, |
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| —Distribution of the Depth of, |
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| —In a confined Situation, |
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| CARCASSES—Composition for, |
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| —Valencienne’s Composition, for making Shells |
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| answer the Purpose of |
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| —Dimensions and Weight of, |
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| —Manner of preventing their being destroyed by the Explosion |
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| CARRONADES—Dimensions and Weight of, |
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| —Ranges with Shot and Shells from |
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| CARRIAGES—Weight of, for Field Service, |
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| —Dimensions of Axletrees for, |
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| —Diameters of Wheels for, |
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| —Dimensions and Weight of standing |
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| CARTRIDGES—Weight and Dimensions of, |
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| for Guns, Mortars, and Howitzers |
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| —For Small Arms |
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| —For Musquets by different Nations |
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| CHAMBERS—Experiments upon the best Form of, for Mortars |
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| CHARGES—For different Natures of Guns and Carronades |
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| —Lessened when Cylinder Powder is used |
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| —of French Guns |
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| CHEVAUX DE FRIZE—Dimensions and Weight of |
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| COMPOSITIONS—For Kitt; Fire, Smoke, and Light Balls; |
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| suffocating Pots; Fire Hoops, Arrows, and |
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| Lances; Cases for burning Fascine Batteries |
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| —General Precautions in mixing |
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| CONVOYS—Length of Line of March of |
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| —Rate of travelling with, and Manner of escorting |
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| DISPART—Of Guns |
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| DISTANCES—Practical Methods of measuring without |
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| mathematical Instruments |
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| —Cavallo’s Micrometer for measuring |
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| —Table of Angles subtended by one Foot at different |
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| DRAG ROPES—Weight and Dimensions of |
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| EMBARKATION—Of Ordnance and Stores |
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| —Of Troops |
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| EXERCISE—Of Artillery |
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| —Duties of the Men attached to Field Guns or Howitzers, |
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| with the full Complement, and with reduced Numbers |
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| —Methods of advancing and retiring Field Artillery |
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| without Drag Ropes |
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| —Duties of the Men in advancing and retiring |
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| Field Artillery with Drag Ropes |
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| —Of Heavy Ordnance on a Battery with different |
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| Complements of Men |
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| —Of the Triangle Gin |
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| —Of the Sling Cart |
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| FASCINES—Dimensions and Uses of the different Natures of, |
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| with the necessary Attentions in making them |
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| FIRE SHIP—Proportion of combustible Stores for |
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| —Method of fitting out |
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| —New Method of fitting out, to produce more external Fire |
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| FLINTS—Number of, packed in a half Barrel; |
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| with the Weight of, &c. |
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| FORTIFICATION—Practical Maxims in building Field Works |
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| with their Dimensions |
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| —Permanent; Observations upon the different Parts of, |
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| with their principal Dimensions |
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| —Observations upon the Means of adding to the Defence of Places |
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| by Outworks, &c. and on defilading a Place from Heights |
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| —Principal Dimensions of, according to Vauban |
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| —Dimensions of Walls from 10 to 50 Feet high |
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| FUZES—Composition for—Dimensions of |
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| —Manner of finding the Length of, for any Range |
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| GABIONS—Dimensions of, and Attentions in making them |
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| GIN TRIANGLE—Dimensions and Weight of |
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| GRAVITY—Table of specific Gravities |
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| —Rules, to find the Magnitude of any Body from its Weight, |
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| and the contrary |
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| GRAPE SHOT—See Shot. |
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| GRENADES—Distance to which they may be thrown |
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| GUNNERY—In a nonresisting Medium |
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| —How far it may be applied to Practice with the Help of good |
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| Tables of Experiments |
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| —Upon a horizontal Plane |
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| —Upon inclined Planes |
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| —Table of Amplitudes |
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| —Table of Natural Sines, Tangents, and Secants |
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| GUNS—Calibers of English and Foreign |
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| —Length and Weight of English Brass |
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| —Ditto French Brass |
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| —Ditto English and French Iron |
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| —Ranges with One Shot from Brass |
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| —Ditto Two Shot |
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| —Ditto small Charges from |
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| —Effects of Case Shot from Battalion |
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| —Ranges from Iron |
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| —Ditto of 5½ Inch Shells from 24 Pr. |
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| —Ditto 4⅖ Inch Ditto 12 Pr. |
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| —Ranges from French |
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| GUNPOWDER—Proportion of Ingredients for, by different |
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| Powers in Europe |
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| —Manner of Proving it at Pursleet |
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| —Marks on the Barrels, by which the different Qualities |
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| are distinguished |
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| —French Proof of |
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| HAIR CLOTH—Dimensions and Weight of |
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| HAND BARROW—Ditto |
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| HANDSPIKES—Ditto |
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| HARNESS—Ditto for Horses and Men |
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| HORSES—Military Gait, and other Particulars respecting them |
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| —Manner of Regulating the Weight they ought to Draw |
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| —Number of, allowed to Artillery Carriages |
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| HOWITZERS—Dimensions and Weight of English and French |
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| —Natures of and by different Powers |
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| —Ranges from |
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| LEVELLING—Table shewing the Difference between the true |
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| and apparent Level |
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| —Manner of applying this Table to finding Heights and Distances |
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| LOAD—How regulated for Artillery Carriages |
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| MAGAZINES—For Powder—Dimensions of Temporary ones |
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| for Batteries |
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| —Permanent, for fortified Places |
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| MATCH, Slow—Composition for, and manner of making |
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| —Time it will burn |
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| —Quick—of Cotton or Worsted |
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| MARCHING—Rate of, for Cavalry and Infantry |
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| —Rates paid for pressed Carriages on a March |
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| —Rates paid to Publicans for Troops on a March |
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| MEASURES—Tables of English Weights and |
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| —Old French, Do. |
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| —New System of, by the French, with their proportion |
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| to the old, and to the English |
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| —Rules for converting French Weights and Measures into English |
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| —German, and Weights |
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| —Proportion between the English Foot, and Pound Avoir, |
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| and those of the principal Places in Europe |
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| —For Powder; their Dimensions |
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| MECHANICS—The different Powers of, and the advantage |
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| gained by each |
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| MILE—Comparison between the Miles of different Countries |
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| MINE—Rules for finding the proper Charge to produce |
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| any required Excavation or Effect |
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| —Remarks upon the Dimensions and Construction of Mines, |
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| and their Galleries |
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| —Usual System of Countermines, when prepared before hand |
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| —Temporary Mines |
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| MORTARS—Dimensions and Weight of English Brass and Iron |
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| Mortars, with their extreme Ranges |
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| —Ranges from 10 Inch Sea Service, at 21° |
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| —Ditto 13 and 10 Inch Sea Service, at 45° |
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| —Ditto French, at 45° |
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| —Ditto English Land Service, at 45° |
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| —Ditto of Iron |
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| —Ditto English Land Service, at 45° of Brass |
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| —Ditto Land Service, 5½ Inch Brass, at 15° |
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| —Ditto Land Service, 10 and 8 Inch, at 10° |
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| —Ditto Land Service, 10 and 8 Inch, at 15° |
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| NAVY—Number and Nature of Ordnance for each Ship |
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| in his Majesty’s |
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| —Principal Dimensions of Ships Of War, Complements of Men, |
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| and Draught of Water |
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| ORDNANCE—Value of Brass and Iron |
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| PACE—The Length of the Common and Geometrical |
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| PARALLELS—See Trenches, and Sap |
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| PAY—Table of, for the Officers, non Commissioned |
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| Officers, and Privates of the Army |
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| PARK—Its Situation and Distribution |
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| PENDULUMS—How made for Artillery Purposes |
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| —Proper Length of, for Seconds, ½ Seconds, and Quarters |
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| —Rules for Finding the proper Length to make any number |
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| of Vibrations in a Minute, and the Contrary |
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| PETARDS—Dimensions of, and Stores for |
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| PLATFORMS—Dimensions of, and Materials for Gun and Mortar |
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| POINT BLANK—What |
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| PONTOONS—Dimensions and Weight of, and Equipage for one |
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| PORTFIRES—Composition for—Time they will Burn |
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| —Manner of making them at Gibraltar |
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| PROVISIONS—Regulations respecting Rations of, |
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| for Sea and Land Service |
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| PROOF of Iron Guns, with the Limits of their Reception |
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| —Of Brass do. |
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| —Howitzers, Mortars, and Carronades |
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| —By Water |
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| —By assaying the Metal |
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| —Marks of condemned Ordnance |
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| RATIONS—Of Provisions for Land and Sea Service |
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| —Regulations respecting their Issue |
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| —Deductions to be made from the Pay of Soldiers for |
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| RANK—Between Sea and Land Officers |
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| RECOIL—Of Brass Guns on Field Carriages, of Iron Guns |
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| on Standing Carriages, and Mortars on their Beds |
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| RECONNOITERING—Preparations for |
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| Objects to be attended to in Reconnoitering— |
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| 1 Roads—2 Fords—3 Inundations—4 Springs |
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| and Wells—5 Lakes and Marshes—6 Woods |
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| and Forests—7 Heaths—8 Canals—9 Rivers— |
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| 10 Passes—11 Ravins—12 Cultivated Lands— |
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| 13 Orchards—14 Bridges—15 Mountains and |
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| Hills—16 Coasts—17 Redoubts—18 Castles |
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| and Citadels—19 Villages—20 Cities not fortified— |
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| 21 Fortified Towns—22 Positions |
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| RICOCHET—Rules for firing |
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| ROCKETS—Composition for Sky Rockets |
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| —Table of General Dimensions of, with their Sticks |
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| —Height to which they will ascend |
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| ROPE—How distinguished—Rule for finding the Weight of |
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| SAND BAGS—Dimensions of—Number required |
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| SAP—Manner of carrying it on |
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| SECANTS—Table of Natural Secants |
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| SHELLS—Dimensions and Weight of, for Mortars and Howitzers |
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| —For Guns and Carronades |
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| —Manner of throwing Shells from Guns though they |
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| do not fit the Bore |
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| —French and German |
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| —Rules to find the Weight of, and the Quantity of Powder |
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| they will contain |
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| SHOT—Rules to find the Number in any Pile of |
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| —Rules for finding the Weight and Dimensions of |
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| Iron and Lead Shot |
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| —Table of Diameters of English and French Iron round Shot |
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| —Table of English Case Shot for different Services |
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| —Tables of Grape Shot for Sea and Land Service |
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| —Manner of Quilting small Shells in Grape |
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| —Precautions in firing Hot Shot |
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| SINES—Table of Natural Sines |
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| SOUND—Velocity of—Rules for computing Distances by |
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| STOPPAGES—From the Pay of an Artillery Soldier, weekly |
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| TANGENTS—Table of Natural Tangents |
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| —Manner of making a Tangent Scale to any Piece of Ordnance |
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| —Table of Tangents to 1° for English Field Artillery |
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| —Ditto French |
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| TENTS—Weight and Dimensions of Tents of different Descriptions |
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| TONNAGE—Manner of finding the Tonnage of any Ship |
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| —Table of Tonnage of Ordnance Stores |
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| —Tonnage allowed for Officers Baggage on board Transports |
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| TRANSPORTS—Regulations on board of |
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| TRENCHES—Dimensions of Trenches of Approach at a Siege |
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| —Manner of opening, and conducting the Trenches and Parallels |
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| TROU DE LOUP—Dimensions of |
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| TUBES—Dimensions of, and Composition for Tin Tubes |
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| UNIFORMS—Principal Colours of the Military |
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| Uniforms of different Powers in Europe |
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| VELOCITY—Principal Points ascertained respecting the initial |
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| Velocities of Shot from Guns of different Lengths, and |
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| with different Charges, by the Experiments at Woolwich |
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| —Initial Velocities of English and French Artillery |
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| VENTS—Diameter of |
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| WEIGHTS—Table of English and French |
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| WINDAGE—Of English and French Artillery |
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| WOOD—Employed in making Artillery Carriages |
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