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]