2019年9月3日 · In 1798, the US Congress allocated a huge sum of money – $800,000 – to the procurement of military equipment to supplement the output of the Springfield Armory. One of the first contracts placed with this money was for 500 .69 …

2017年9月4日 · After the Revolutionary War Connecticut gunmaker Simeon North won a contract to manufacture the fledgling nation’s first officially adopted pistol. The result was the North & Cheney Model 1799 flintlock pistol. Heavily influenced by the French St. Etienne/Charleville Modele 1777 pistol, which had seen action in America during the Revolutionary War.

They produced around 2,000 Model 1799 Contract Pistols in two contracts – the first, delivering 500 and the second, 1500. It was the first official model adopted by the U.S. government. This first contract pistol was modeled after the Model 1777 French pistol.

This .72 caliber smoothbore, flintlock U.S. First Mode l 1799 pistol was made by North and Cheney. It has a brass frame trigger guard and buttcap, an iron backstrap, no forestock, a one piece walnut handle, and a steel ramrod with button head. Under the brass frame, “S. NORTH & E. CHENEY BERLIN” is stamped.

While the Model 1799 was the first sidearm officially adopted by the US government, the Continental Army had adopted the Model 1775 during the war. Based on a British, rather than French, design the Model 1775, made at the Rappahannock Forge in …

In 1803, Lewis picked up a set of two horse pistols from the Schuylkill Arsenal in Philadelphia, where records indicate there were several hundred pairs on hand. The standardized U.S. military pistol of that period was the Model 1799 single-shot flintlock gun made under contract with North & Cheney of Berlin, Connecticut.

2017年9月6日 · The small New England firm of North & Cheney crafted 2,000 flintlock pistols for the U.S Army starting in 1799, and one of these rare guns is up for grabs. Rock Island has a surviving specimen...

Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order (1-to-Z). Flag images indicative of country of origin and not necessarily the primary operator. This listing also includes other small arms of the period such as hand grenades, infantry mortars, and related man-portable systems.

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