| | Dynamite, freezing of, | 165 | | Dynamite, tamping, | 179 | | E | | Earth auger, | 138 | | Electric batteries, wires, and lights, | 165-6 | | Elevated and sunken batteries, | 44 | | Elevated magazine, | 62 | | Embrasures, | 53 | | Enfilading batteries, | 82 | | Execution of double sap, | 32 | | Execution of single sap, | 28 | | Experimental mines, | 125, 131, 133 | | Explosion, theory of, | 120 | | Explosive, charge for blasts, | 179 | | Explosive, charge for mines, | 122-5 | | Explosive, choice of, | 132-5 | | Explosive, expenditure of energy, | 120 | | Explosive, freezing of, | 165 | | Explosive, noxious gases from, | 133, 158 | | Explosive, relative strength of, | 131, 179 | | Explosive, tamping of, | 178-9 | | Exposed sunken battery, | 46 | | F | | False frame, | 146 | | Field kitchens and ovens, | 114 | | Field-level, description, | 136 | | Field-level, use, | 146, 148, 149 | | Filtration of water, | 117 | | Fire, musketry, | 84 | | Fire, opening by attack, | 76 | | Fire, opening by defence, | 104 | | Fire, opening from second artillery position, | 83 | | Firing blasts, | 178 | | Firing and loading mines, | 161-6 | | Firing-tubes and needles, | 178-9 | | First artillery position, | 75 | | First parallel, | 78 | | First period of the siege, | 65 | | Flying sap, | 20 | | Flying sap, construction of, | 22 | | Fort Wagner, | 86 | | Form and volume of crater, | 121 | | Fortifying camps, parks, etc., | 68 | | Frames and sheeting compared with cases, | 141 | | Frames and sheeting, use in shafts, | 139-45 | | Frames and sheeting, use in galleries, | 145-51 | | Freezing of high explosives, | 71-2 | | Passage, central, of battery, | 48 | | Passage of the ditch, | 37 | | Period, first, of siege, | 65, 103 | | Period, second, of siege, | 75, 106 | | Period, third, of siege, | 86, 107 | | Pick and shovel, miner’s, | 136 | | Pick, miner’s, distance heard, | 170 | | Placing fuzes in charge, | 164 | | Placing the charge, | 165, 176 | | Plan of attack, | 78 | | Plevna, siege of, | 71, 72 | | Point of attack, | 73 | | Posting besieging force, | 67 | | Posting working parties, | 18 | | Powder-boxes, | 58 | | Powder for siege batteries, | 44, 57 | | Precautions against dampness, | 63 | | Precautions in blasting, | 180 | | Preliminary considerations of defence, | 98 | | Preparations for defence, | 101 | | Preparing the charge, | 161 | | Progress of the siege, | 12 | | Proofs, bomb, | 25 | | Proofs, splinter, | 23, 48, 50 | | Provisions and supplies, | 101 | | Push pick, | 136 | | R | | Radius of explosion, | 119 | | Radius of rupture, | 120, 128, 131 | | Railroads, demolition of, | 183 | | Rate of advance of galleries, | 157 | | Rate of advance of sap, | 29 | | Regular approaches, | 12 | | Requirements, general, of siege batteries, | 42 | | Returns, | 150-1 | | Rifled mortars and howitzers, batteries of, | 83 | | Rolling-stock, demolition of, | 184 | | S | | Sand-bag fork, | 13 | | Sap, attack by, | 91 | | Sap, definition, | 27 | | Sap, blinded, | 35 | | Sap, breaking out from a parallel, | 30 | | Sap, double, | 32-3 | | Sap-fork, |
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