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Original Table of Contents: as present in the source document. The reason for the order of entries is not clear, and some chapters are not listed, nor are the sections. The structure of the text has been determined based on what seemed the most logical interpretation of (the lay-out of) the chapter and section headings in the text. The Extended Table of Contents in the back of the book has been created for this text on the basis of this assumed structure; the page numbers i through iv have been inserted for this Table of Contents.

The text refers to the plates by both Roman and Arabic numbers. This has not been standardised. The numbering of the actual plates has been standardised.

The illustrations in the plates in the back of the book have been individually scaled for better visibility. Where relevant, links to larger versions of the illustrations have been provided (not available in all formats).

Page 29, great inconvenience ... quite preclude: as printed in the source document.

Page 29 and 35 (and Errata), sulphite and sulphide: as printed in the source document.

Page 30 and 31, calculations: as printed in the source document.

Page 44, Slings were used in 1572, at the siege of Sancere by the Huguenots, in order to save their powder: there should be a comma after Sancere, the Huguenots were the besieged party.

Page 47, Our forefathers ... public schools: considered to be a section heading.

Page 66, both the king’s feed men: other sources mention Peter Bawd and Peter Vancollen / Van Collen as freed men.

Page 107, weight of bullet, ·530 grains: as printed in the source document, but unlikely to be correct.

Page 114, paragraph on Parabolic theory: even with the corrections mentioned in the errata, some of the reference letters are missing; F, G and H are presumably the ends of the vertical lines through C, D and E respectively.

Page 119, strictly empirical formula: should probably have been a plural.

Changes made:

Footnotes have been moved to directly after the paragraph to which they refer.

Some minor obvious punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected silently.

B.C./B. C. and A.D./A. D. have been standardised to B. C. and A. D., respectively. Minie, MiniÈ (the spelling used most commonly in this book) and MiniÉ have been standardised to MiniÉ.

The (corrected, see below) Errata have already been applied to the text.

Errata: Page 32, para. 6, line 10 changed to Page 32, para.7, line 10; IX and XII changed to ix and xii; Page 84, para. 2, line 1 (2nd entry) changed to Page 84, para. 3, line 1. Subalterns changed to subaltern officers; Page 91, para. 5 changed to Page 91, para. 4; sign changed to sine.

Page 4: Poganatus changed to Pogonatus as elsewhere

Page 5: Talavara changed to Talavera

Page 21: frustrum changed to frustum

Page 30: 3490 changed to 3940

Page 32, sidenote: Robert changed to Piobert (as in text and Errata)

Page 35: deliquescient changed to deliquescent

Page 38: dull read heat changed to dull red heat

Page 52: closing quote mark inserted after Shooting-fields

Page 54: yeoman or archers changed to yeomen or archers

Page 61: opening quote mark inserted before Report of the Rifle Match

Page 65: opening quote marks inserted before MusÉe

Page 74, sidenote: 1491 changed to 1471

Page 86, BÀle changed to BÂle

Page 88, sidenote: Carabine a Tige changed to Carabine À Tige

Page 105: cups divers shapes changed to cups of divers shapes

Page 115: Plate 21, fig. 2 changed to Plate 22, fig. 2

Plate 18: opening quote marks inserted before Moolik.