In this Book
- American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of New Mexico Press
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder arms used in North America and detailed accounts of the development and progression of military regulation shoulder arms of the major colonial powers from the early eighteenth century through the Revolutionary War.
Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder arms used in North America and detailed accounts of the development and progression of military regulation shoulder arms of the major colonial powers from the early eighteenth century through the Revolutionary War.
Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xiii-xvi
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. xvii-xxiv
- PART I
- AMERICAN COLONIAL. ARMS HISTORY
- pp. 3-12
- IGNITION SYSTEMS OF COLONIAL ARMS
- pp. 13-25
- COLONIAL SHOULDER ARMS
- pp. 26-96
- PART II
- CONTINENTAL ARSENALS AND LABORATORIES
- pp. 137-140
- CONTINENTAL MUSKET PARTS PROCUREMENT
- pp. 141-145
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR REPAIR OF ARMS
- pp. 146-158
- "US" IDENTIFICATION OF CONTINENTAL MUSKETS
- pp. 159-162
- THE AMERICAN LONG RIFLE
- pp. 178-186
- AMERICAN-ASSEMBLED CARBINES
- pp. 187-189
- AMERICAN-ASSEMBLED BLUNDERBUSS ARMS
- pp. 190-192
- PART III
- ARMS CAPTURED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- pp. 196-197
- FOREIGN ARMS PROCURED BY INDIVIDUAL COLONIES
- pp. 206-210
- BRITISH MILITARY SHOULDER ARMS
- pp. 211-290
- FRENCH ARMS
- pp. 291-371
- LIEGE ARMS
- pp. 372-378
- DUTCH ARMS
- pp. 379-403
- SPANISH ARMS
- pp. 404-412
- GERMAN STATES' MUSKETS
- pp. 418-447
- JAGER RIFLES
- pp. 448-462
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 499-504