The article highlights five of the most outstanding and revolutionary service rifles ever used by the United States military.

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Would I encounter antebellum nostalgia or even outright denial of slavery’s role in the war ... artillery fire from the southern hill. The opposing infantries loaded their rifles, fired ...

The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets ... rim-fire cartridge. 1860 - Spencer repeating carbine patented. Introduced at the start of the Civil War, Spencer ...

There are numerous cartridge-firing (powder actuated ... Cal. .58 paper-wrapped cartridge for U.S. Civil War period muzzle-loading rifle-musket. After breaking cartridge, powder charge was ...

But what separates the Battle of Black Jack from others is it was the first armed skirmish between pro- and anti-slavery forces and lit the fuse on what would become the Civil War. Much has been ...

But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg, where Pickett lost a staggering number of his own men; nearly all the rest would be killed by the ... fire and repeated volleys of musket fire.

The embattled frontier shaped him into a capable fighter: Fearless under fire, he was a crack shot with his Hawken rifle and a cunning scout. His nickname was El Leoncito — the Little Lion. When the ...

An English Civil War re-enactment group is hosting ... "I found myself, a couple of weeks later, dressed in a hat and britches and firing a musket," he said. "The militia has evolved so much ...

“If you don’t take the rifle and fight ... pouring fuel on the fire of Sudan”, the US special envoy, Tom Perriello, called on “all external actors to stop fuelling this war, stop arming ...

Five Palestinian terrorists were killed by special forces during a raid in a camp in the West Bank on Wednesday, the Israel ...