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A treatise on gun-powder, a treatise on fire-arms, and a treatise on the service of artillery in time of war / translated from the italian of Alessandro Vittorio Papacino d'Antoni by captain Thomson
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Z 08 SERVICE OP ARTILLERY

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For 600000 cartridges for the infantry 182 ^-For 3000 cartridges for wall-pieces .... 300For artificial fire-works and combustibles 91*Add ^ for accidents . 360

Combustibles.

Number.

Faggots dipped in pitch . 12000

Iron grates for lighting the ramparts to be filled?

with different combustibles ...$ * 5 °

Light balls of the diameter of the stone mortars 400

Carcasses ditto ... 200

c<wt 4 qrs. Us.

Port-fire composition to be put into the shells 54

Articles of different kinds.

Number

Oaken planks for platforms . 1000

Sleepers for ditto . 500

Ballast-baskets . . 1000

Hand barrows . ieo

Spare helves for intrenching tools . 2000

Sand bags ..'.. 20000

Large oil-cloths . 100

Small ditto . ico

c%vt$ qrs. Us.

Grease ... 36 7

Flannel for cartridges . yards 300

Iron-work and Nails.

Iron-work of forts for gun carriages andmortar beds

Iron-plate for carriages, round, square and

flat .

Nails for wheels .

Ditto for platforms ..

Ditto 40 to the lb.

Iron. wire ..

Steel .....

36

27

9

18

3

3

9

qrs. IBs.

Articles