Boxes

in military affairs, are of several sorts, and for various purposes. Battery - Boxes . See Battery . Cartouch - Boxes . See Cartouch . Nave Boxes , are made of iron or bra , and fastened one at each end of the nave, to prevent the arms of the axle-tree, about which the boxes turn, from causing too much friction. Tin - Boxes , such as are filled with small shot for grape, according to the size of the gun they are to be fired out of. Wood - Boxes , with lids, for holding grape-shot, . each calibre has its own, distinguished by marks of the calibre on the lid.