| Eleva- tion. | 2 Pounds. | 3 Pounds. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight. | First Graze. | Extreme range. | Flight. | First Graze. | Extreme range. | |
| Deg. | Sec. | Y’ds. | Yards. | Sec. | Y’ds. | Yards. |
| 1 | 2 | 453 | From 1400 to 1900 | 3 | 479 | From 1400 to 2000 |
| 2 | 4 | 595 | 5 | 722 | ||
| 3 | 4 | 666 | 5 | 921 | ||
| 4 | 5 | 847 | 5 | 1000 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 957 | 7 | 1325 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 1173 | 8 | 1530 | ||
| 7 | 9 | 1449 | 9 | 1577 | ||
| 8 | 8 | 1355 | 9 | 1721 | ||
| 9 | 8 | 1585 | 9 | 1801 | ||
| 10 | 10 | 1853 | 9 | 1791 | ||
| 11 | 9 | 1793 | 12 | 1013 | ||
| 12 | 10 | 1686 | ||||
HUE AND CRY, an English official Gazette so called, which is published at the expiration of every third week in the year, and serves to advertise deserters. That part which immediately relates to desertions is divided into seventeen columns, viz names, corps, age, size, coat, waistcoat, breeches, hair, complexion, eyes, marks, and remarks, trade, &c., parish born, county born, time, from whence, agent’s names, agent’s abode.
HUGHLY WACCA, Ind. a newspaper or chronicle which is kept by the officers of the native governments in India.
HUISSIER d’armes, Fr. tipstaff; an officer formerly so called in France, who was attached to the royal household. They were at first distinguished by the name of Sergens d’armes, or serjeants at arms. Some were directed to bear the mace before the king during the day, and obtained on that account the appellation of Huissiers d’armes; in later times while the monarchy subsisted, they were called the Huissiers, or tipstaffs of the king’s chamber. Others kept watch in the king’s bed-chamber during the night, and were sworn to expose their lives for the safety of his person, whence they obtained the name of archers de la garde, which term was changed into gardes-du-corps, or body-guards.
Death HUNTERS, followers of an army, who, after the engagement look for dead bodies, in order to strip them. They generally consist of soldiers’ wives, &c.
HUNGARIAN battalion, a body of men belonging to the Austrian army, whose dress consists in a white jacket, the buttons straight down to the waist, with blue colored collar, cuffs and skirts before and behind, like the rest of the Austrian infantry, with this difference, that the latter have white breeches and long black gaiters, and the former wear light blue pantaloons and half-boots.
HUNS, GOTHS, and VANDALS, barbarous tribes that inhabited the various provinces of Germany which had never been subdued by the Romans, or were scattered over those vast countries in the north of Europe, and north west of Asia which are now occupied by the Danes, the Swedes, the Poles, the subjects of the Russian empire, and the Tartars.
HURDLES, in fortification, are made of twigs of willows or osiers, interwoven close together, sustained by long stakes. They are made in the figure of a long square; the length being 5 or 6 feet, and breadth 3 or 3¹⁄₂. The closer they are wattled together, the better. They serve to render batteries firm, or to consolidate the passage over muddy ditches; or to cover traverses and lodgments for the defence of the workmen against the fireworks, or the stones, that may be thrown against them.
Hurdle Battery. See [Battery]. These are the invention of colonel Congreve of the British Artillery, and are admirably adapted for temporary fortifications. They consist of hurdles fixed in the ground in a triangular form, the intermediate space being filled with sand or earth, &c. are constructed in a few minutes, and in any figure.
HURTER, a flatted iron fixed against the body of an axle-tree, with straps to take off the friction of the naves of wheels against the body.