Pistols, pairs; one half the number of musquets.
Flints; 50 per musquet, and 10 per pistol.
Lead or Balls for small arms; 30 pounds per musquet.
Powder for small arms; 5 pounds for every musquet in the garrison, including the spare ones.
The above proportions are taken from Durtubie’s Manuel De l’Artilleur.
The following method of regulating the management of the artillery, and estimating the probable expenditure of ammunition in the defence of a fortified place, is extracted from a valuable work on fortification lately published at Berlin. It is particularly applied to a regular hexagon: the siege is divided into three periods, viz.
1st. From the first investiture to the first opening of the trenches, about 5 days.
2d. From the opening of the trenches to the effecting a lodgement on the glacis, about 18 days.
3d. From this time to the capitulation, about 5 days.
First Period. Three guns on the barbette of each bastion and on the barbettes of the ravelins in front of the gate ways, half 24 prs. and half 18 prs.[4] three 9 prs. on the barbette of each of the other ravelins.