Treatise of Artillery


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A Treatise Of Artillery ...


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A Treatise of Artillery


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2005 Scholar's Bookshelf facsimile reprint edition of the third, London: 1780 edition of this eighteenth-century British treatise on the construction of guns, their measurements and capabilities, movement, ammunition, stores, and use aboard ships. This edition included special material on the use of gunpowder. Includes all the original detailed illustrations and reference material. 216 pages, softcover.




Treatise on Ammunition


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Civil War Artillery At Gettysburg


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This study of artillery at Gettysburg will influence the history of this crucial battle for years to come."--BOOK JACKET.













Artillery for the United States Land Service


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A collection of drawings, tables, and descriptions of artillery, artillery supplies, and ordnance available to the U.S. Army in its land service.




A Revolution in Arms


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"Mr. Bilby takes us through Gettysburg, among other places, showing how the Spencer and Henry rifle played a decisive role." --The Wall Street Journal "A valuable study. . . . his research is balanced and thorough, his writing is lively and clear. . . . his approach gives the book broad appeal." --Journal of Military History "This is an outstanding book--accurate, judicious, highly readable." --North & South "A Revolution in Arms is written in such a good, readable way of a very important time in the history of firearms."--Rifle Magazine "Well written and researched. . . . certainly should be an addition to your library."--Civil War Times Historians often call the American Civil War the first modern war, pointing to the use of observation balloons, the telegraph, trains, mines, ironclad ships, and other innovations. Although recent scholarship has challenged some of these "firsts," the war did witness the introduction of the first repeating rifles. No other innovation of the turbulent 1860s would have a greater effect on the future of warfare. In A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles, historian Joseph G. Bilby unfolds the fascinating story of how two New England inventors, Benjamin Henry and Christopher Spencer, each combined generations of cartridge and rifle technology to develop reliable repeating rifles. In a stroke, the Henry rifle and Spencer rifle and carbine changed warfare forever, accelerating the abandonment of the formal battle line tactics of previous generations and when properly applied, repeating arms could alter the course of a battle. Although slow to enter service, the repeating rifle soon became a sought after weapon by both Union and Confederate troops. Oliver Winchester purchased the rights to the Henry and transformed it into "the gun that won the West." The Spencer, the most famous of all Civil War small arms, was the weapon of choice for Federal cavalrymen. The revolutionary technology represented by repeating arms used in the American Civil War, including self-contained metallic cartridges, large capacity magazines, and innovative cartridge feeding systems, was copied or adapted by arms manufacturers around the world, and these features remain with us today.