American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms

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CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I 012. AMERICAN COLONIAL ARMS HISTORY .2 Pre-Colonial Period, 1492-1607 .5 First Colonial Period, 1607-1691 .8 Second Colonial Period, 1691-1775 015. IGNITION SYSTEMS OF COLONIAL ARMS .2 Matchlock .5 Wheel-Lock .8 FlintlockVariations 017. COLONIAL SHOULDER ARMS .A The Harquebus .C MatchlockMuskets .E Wheel-LockMuskets .G British Snaphance Muskets .1 English LockMuskets J Swedish Snaplock Musket .K Doglock Muskets .L British 17th-Century and Pre-Land Pattern FlintlockMuskets .N 18th-Century Colonial Militia Muskets .P ColonialFowler-Muskets .P5 Early 18th-Century Fowler-Musket .P7 Late 18th-Century Fowler-Muskets .R FowlingGuns .Rl 17th-Century Fowlers .R5 Hudson ValleyFowlers .R7 New England Fowlers .R9 Other Fowling Guns .S French Hunting and Trade Guns .T French Buccaneer Guns .V 17th-Century Carbines .V2 Wheel-Lock Carbine xi xiii xvii 3 3 4 9 13 13 15 16 26 27 29 38 42 42 44 45 49 57 62 63 64 69 70 72 77 81 85 89 90 91 PART II 027. DEFINITION OF ARMS BY TYPE, SOURCE, AND ORIGIN .2 Type of Arm .5 Source of Procurement .8 Country of Origin 029. PRIVATELY OWNED ARMS PROCURED DURING THE REVOLUTION 03L MUSKETS PROCURED BY AUTHORITY OF A COLONY OR STATE 2 Committees of Safety A Committee of Safety Muskets .6 State Contract Muskets .8 Notes on the Specifications and Procurement of Committee of Safety and State Contract Muskets 035. MUSKETS PROCURED BY AUTHORITY OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS .2 Continental Contract Muskets .5 Continental Use of State Procurement Agencies .8 Sales of Continental Muskets to Individual States 037. CONTINENTAL ARSENALS AND LABORATORIES .2 The First Continental Arsenals ,5 The Arsenal and Laboratory at Springfield .8 The Philadelphia Supply Agencies 039. CONTINENTAL MUSKET PARTS PROCUREMENT .2 Imported Musket Parts .5 Musket Parts Fabricated at Continental Facilities .8 Continental Contract Small Arms Components 041. REVOLUTIONARYWAR REPAIR OF ARMS .2 Continental Armorers .4 Continental Factories and Armories .42 The Continental Gun Factory .45 The Continental Armory and French Factory .48 U.S. Armorers .6 Continental Contract Repair of Arms .8 Post-Revolutionary War Repair of Arms VI CONTENTS .V5 English Snaphance Carbine .V8 Flintlock Carbines .Y 17ttvCentury Military Blunderbuss Arms 92 93 96 99 99 101 103 105 106 106 107 108 108 131 131 134 135 137 137 138 138 141 141 142 143 146 147 148 149 150 151 151 153 CONTENTS 043. "US" IDENTIFICATION OF CONTINENTAL. MUSKETS 045. AMERICAN-ASSEMBLED MUSKETS OF BRITISH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN STATES' PATTERNS .2 MusketsContaining British Components .5 MusketsContaining American-Made British Pattern Components .8 MusketsContaining French Components .9 MusketsContaining Germanic Components 047. THE AMERICAN LONG RIFLE 048. AMERICAN-ASSEMBLED CARBINES 049. AMERICAN-ASSEMBLED BLUNDERBUSS ARMS PART III 050. FOREIGN SHOULDER ARMS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 053. ARMS CAPTURED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 055. FOREIGN DIPLOMACY AND ARMS PROCUREMENT DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 057. FOREIGN ARMS PROCURED BY INDIVIDUAL COLONIES 065. BRITISH MILITARYSHOULDER ARMS .A Land Pattern Muskets .A2 Long Land Pattern (Type I) Musket .A4 Long Land Pattern (Type II) Musket .A6 Short Land Pattern Musket .A62 Short Land Pattern Musket (forDragoons) .A66 Short Land New Pattern Musket .A9 Land Pattern Commercial Sales Muskets .C Sea Service Musket .D Marine or Militia Musket .F Officers' Fusil .H Flank Company Sergeants' Fusil .1 Light Infantry Fusil .] Royal Artillery Carbine .K 1770 Dragoon Carbine .L 1756 Light Dragoon Carbine .M Elliot Carbine .O IStlvCentury Horseman's Carbines VII 159 163 164 165 168 173 178 187 190 195 196 198 206 211 212 215 219 223 224 226 231 235 241 243 246 247 251 256 257 258 260 CONTENTS .02 Queen Anne Period Horseman's Carbine .07 Horseman's Carbine (from 1757) .R Military Rifles of the Seven Years' War .S Military Rifles of the Revolutionary War .T Ferguson Breechloading Rifle .V Nock Volley Gun .X Blunderbuss and Musketoon Arms ,X2 British Late 17th-Century Blunderbuss .X5 British Early 18th-Century Blunderbuss .X8 British MilitaryRevolutionary War Period Blunderbuss .X9 British Quasi-Military 18th-Century Blunderbuss .Y British Foreign Purchase Arms 070. FRENCH ARMS .A Introduction .B Manufacturing Tolerances .C French Regulation Models and Armories .C2 The Configuration of French Arms .C4 Early Naval Muskets .C6 Alterations of French Regulation Arms .C8 French Matchlock Muskets .D 1696 Contract Naval Musket .E 1696 Contract Grenadier Musket .F 1716 Contract Naval Musket .G 1716 Contract Grenadier Musket .H Model 1717 Muskets .HI Model 1717 Infantry Musket .H2 Model 1717 Rampart...