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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Eight

4th March 2019 Tom Pudding 27

Introduction During the first half of the 19th century great leaps forward were made in firearms technology and by the 1870s soldiers who 50 years earlier would have been supplied with flintlock, smoothbore muskets were [more…]

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