Wikimedia Commons has media related to 18th-century weapons. The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

2013年4月17日 · Several of the state constitutions protected the right of the militia to be armed, which modern gun-rights advocates cite as evidence that owning guns was considered as fundamental to liberty...

At the beginning of the Revolution, the army relied on soldiers to bring weapons from home, including hunting guns, militia arms and outdated martial weapons from the French and Indian War. American soldiers also carried weapons captured from the enemy in the field and reissued to Continental and state troops.

2019年9月10日 · Today, many Americans see guns as a symbol of freedom from tyranny. They credit the Second Amendment, written in 1791, for having saved the newly freed United States from the fate of Britain’s...

Bellesiles found that probate inventories and militia records from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries strongly indicated that guns were scarce in early America and that gun ownership was "exceptional."

These guns Knox found to be so heavy and over cast that he had them melted down and recast into light 6-pounders. Each four-pounder made three light 6-pounders. PERSONNEL. Prior to the Revolution, guns were actually operated in battle by soldiers, but they were transported by civilian teamsters and carters working on contracts.

2015年7月26日 · While the standard arm of the day was a single-shot flintlock, the Girardoni offered a massive firepower advantage to the men who carried it. The guns (designed by Bartholomäus Girardoni, of...

The flintlock firearms of the mid-18 th Century, including the types of guns used in the Revolutionary War, and French and Indian War, along with some experimental concepts well ahead of their time. Guns of the Revolutionary War era - Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, the American long rifle, Black Watch and Queen Anne pistols and more.

As long as the gun is theirs, they are unconquered, victorious; when the gun is lost, all is lost.” 2 In this section, we will explore the development of types of cannon, British and American from 1780 through 1880. Field guns, Howitzers, mortars, rockets, seacoast cannons, gun Howitzers, rifle guns and mountain Howitzers will be discussed.

American Kentucky Rifles and Plains Rifles, US military and civilian arms through the mid-19 th century, and historic firearms innovations such as Colt's Paterson and Walker revolvers. The arming the militia plus the new national armories. The first …