American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III : Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865.
This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of shou...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of New Mexico Press
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of shoulder arms. During the 1840s, only a handful of American manufacturers were capable of producing significant quantities of arms having fully interchangeable components. By the early 1850s, at least one firm was producing rifles with close enough tolerances to be considered fully interchangeable. An. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (648 pages) |
ISBN: | 1283636549 9781283636544 6613949000 9786613949004 9780826350022 082635002X 9780826350015 0826350011 |