Trapdoor Springfield
Author : Malden D. Waite
Publisher : Beinfeld Pub
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780917714207
Author : Malden D. Waite
Publisher : Beinfeld Pub
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780917714207
Author : John Langellier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1472819721
Intended to replace the proliferation of different small arms fielded by US forces during the American Civil War, the “Trapdoor Springfield” was designed in 1865–66 by Erskine S. Allin. Using metallic cartridges, it could be loaded in a single action, increasing the number of shots per minute as much as fivefold. The new weapon quickly proved its worth in two separate incidents in August 1867: small groups of US soldiers and civilians armed with the trapdoor repulsed numerically superior Native American contingents. A simple and cost-effective weapon, it was used, along with its variants in every US conflict in the three decades after the Civil War, especially on the American frontier. Drawing upon first-hand accounts from US soldiers, their Native American opponents, and users such as buffalo hunters, this is the story of the “Trapdoor Springfield”, one of the defining weapons of the Indian Wars.
Author : Joe Poyer
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781882391394
Author : J. Spencer Wolf
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Handloading of ammunition
ISBN : 9781575790190
Author : Albert J. Frasca
Publisher :
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Springfield rifle
ISBN : 9780937500118
Author : William S. Brophy
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811708722
The lifetime work of the rifle's premier authority. Exhaustive research has taken Brophy into some of the rarest collections in existence.
Author : Alexander Rose
Publisher : Delta
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0553384384
George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.
Author : Richard A. Fox
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806148772
On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer and his men bravely erected their heroic last stand. So goes the myth of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a myth perpetuated and reinforced for over 100 years. In truth, however, "Custer’s Last Stand" was neither the last of the fighting nor a stand. Using innovative and standard archaeological techniques, combined with historical documents and Indian eyewitness accounts, Richard Allan Fox, Jr. vividly replays this battle in astonishing detail. Through bullets, spent cartridges, and other material data, Fox identifies combat positions and tracks soldiers and Indians across the Battlefield. Guided by the history beneath our feet, and listening to the previously ignored Indian testimonies, Fox reveals scenes of panic and collapse and, ultimately, a story of the Custer battle quite different from the fatalistic versions of history. According to the author, the five companies of the Seventh Cavalry entered the fray in good order, following planned strategies and displaying tactical stability. It was the sudden disintegration of this cohesion that caused the troopers’ defeat. The end came quickly, unexpectedly, and largely amid terror and disarray. Archaeological evidences show that there was no determined fighting and little firearm resistance. The last soldiers to be killed had rushed from Custer Hill.
Author : Lynda Cohen Loigman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250140722
For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret. "Loigman’s strong voice and artful prose earn her a place in the company of Alice Hoffman and Anita Diamant, whose readers should flock to this wondrous new book." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale "The Wartime Sisters shows the strength of women on the home front: to endure, to fight, and to help each other survive.” —Jenna Blum, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lost Family and Those Who Save Us Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives. "One of my favorite books of the year." —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Masterpiece "A stirring tale of loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of long-buried secrets.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge of Lost and Sold on a Monday
Author : Jerry Keenan
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0306817101
One of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recent archaeological evidence.