PART I.
| INFANTRY EXERCISE, MOVEMENTS, &c. | |
| Sword Exercise. | |
| PITCHING, AND STRIKING, TENTS. | |
| PAGE | |
| 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. | ||
| Sect. | PAGE | |
| 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 |