HENRY COXWELL.
(From a Photograph by Messrs. Negretti & Zambra.)
MY LIFE
AND
BALLOON EXPERIENCES,
WITH
A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER
ON
MILITARY BALLOONING.
BY
HENRY COXWELL.
London:
W. H. ALLEN & CO. 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S. W.
1887.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Boyhood and Youth | [ 1] |
| First view of a Balloon | [ 8] |
| Juvenile Conflicts | [ 11] |
| Launch at Chatham Dockyard | [ 23] |
| School-boy Observations of Green’s Balloon | [ 32] |
| Settling in Life | [ 38] |
| The Vauxhall Balloon | [ 41] |
| Departure for Amsterdam | [ 43] |
| First Ascent | [ 48] |
| Lieutenant Gale’s Balloon | [ 55] |
| Nocturnal Ascent | [ 59] |
| Ascents from Chelmsford | [ 66] |
| Engagements in Belgium | [ 69] |
| The Field of Waterloo | [ 88] |
| Ascent at Cologne | [ 108] |
| Exhibition at Berlin | [ 116] |
| Narrow Escape in Hanover | [ 131] |
| Ascent at Leipsig | [ 147] |
| 1852 | [ 148] |
| 1853 | [ 155] |
| The beginning of Military Ballooning | [ 167] |
| Military Ballooning during this Century | [ 176] |
| Air Torpedoes and Bombshells | [ 185] |
| Military Ballooning in the Year of Jubilee | [ 189] |
| Remarkable Ascents during this Century | [ 202] |
| Ascent, over five miles high, by Green and Rush | [ 217] |
| A Jump out of the Car in America | [ 224] |
| An Englishman’s Parachute Descent in 1839 | [ 225] |
| Channel Ballooning | [ 227] |