Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress

by H. W. L. Hime

[455] M. Berthelot in Revue des Deux Mondes, 15th August 1891, p. 817.

[456] K. Vitterhets Hist. och Antiq. Acads. Handr., Stockholm, iv. 337.

[457] Kapten F. A. Spak’s Öfversigt öfver Artilleriets Uppkomst och Utveckling i Europa, p. 12.

[458] “History of Inventions,” Bohn’s ed., ii. 509.

[459] “Natural History of Nitre,” London, 1670, p. 21.

[460] Napoleon III., iii. 205.

[461] There were exceptions, such as blasting powder.

[462] “The Gunner,” p. 145.

[463] Jähns, 804 n.

[464] Napoleon III., iii. 232.