American military shoulder arms. Volume II, From the 1790s to the end of the Flintlock period / George D. Moller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moller, George D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Armed Forces--Firearms--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II, contains more than three hundred photographs. As with the previous volume, Volume II is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 100. SMALL ARMS PROCUREMENT ACTIONS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS IN 1794; 105. FEDERAL PERIOD IMPORT ARMS; .1 British Muskets; .2 British Carbines; .3 Unidentified Federal Period Imported Muskets; .7 Imported Ketland Locks; .9 Hanoverian Muskets; 125. 1792 U.S. CONTRACT ARMY RIFLE; .G Jonathan Graeff Rifle; 130. MODEL 1795 MUSKET, SPRINGFIELD ARMORY; .1 (Type I) Musket, 1795-1806; .2 (Type II) Musket, 1806-1809; .3 (Type III) Musket, 1809-1814; .4 (Type IV) Musket, 1813-1815; 131. MODEL 1795 SPRINGFIELD MUSKET, FIXED BAYONET ALTERATION

133. MODEL 1795 SPRINGFIELD MUSKET, 1813 SPRINGFIELD ARMORY ALTERATION 134. MODEL 1795 MUSKET, HARPERS FERRY ARMORY; 136. ARMORY AND ARSENAL REPAIRED/REBUILT MODEL 1795 MUSKETS; .1 Armory Repaired/Rebuilt Muskets; .2 Arsenal Repaired/Rebuilt Muskets; .3 Configurations of Armory and Arsenal Repaired/Rebuilt Muskets; 137. MODEL 1812 MUSKET, SPRINGFIELD ARMORY; .1 Model 1812 (Type I) Musket; .2 Model 1812 (Type II) Musket; .3 Model 1812 (Type III) Musket; 138. U.S. NAVY MUSKETS; .1 1796 Contract Ship Musket; .2 French Brass-Mounted Muskets; .3 Short British Ship Musket; .4 Springfield Ship Musket

.6 Navy Procurement from the War of 1812.8 Navy Procurement of Whitney and Wickham Muskets; 139. 1794 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; .2 1794 U.S. Contract Muskets of the French Model 1766 Configuration; .4 1794 U.S. Contract Muskets That Do Not Conform to the French Model 1766 Pattern; 140. 1798 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; 141. 1808 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; 142. 1812 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; 144. STATE-OWNED, MILITIA, AND OTHER MILITARY MUSKETS; .C Connecticut; .D Delaware; .G Georgia; .I Maine; .J Maryland; .K Massachusetts; .M New Hampshire; .N New Jersey; .P New York; .S Pennsylvania; .U Rhode Island

.W South Carolina.X Virginia; .Z Unidentified State and Militia Muskets; 145. STATE-PROCURED AND MILITIA MILITARY RIFLES; .C Connecticut; .H Kentucky; .J Maryland; .K Massachusetts; .N New Jersey; .P New York; .S Pennsylvania; .U South Carolina; .X Virginia; 146. MILITIA MUSKETOONS; .1 (Type I) Militia Musketoon; .2 (Type II) Militia Musketoon; .3 (Type III) Militia Musketoon; 147. NAVAL BLUNDERBUSSES AND SWIVEL GUNS; .F New England Blunderbuss; .M ""PITTSBURGH"" Swivel Gun; .P ""T. FRENCH"" Swivel Gun; 149. MODEL 1803 HARPERS FERRY RIFLE; .1 Model 1803 (Type I) Harpers Ferry Rifle

.2 Model 1803 (Type II) Harpers Ferry Rifle 151. 1807 U.S. CONTRACT ARMY RIFLES; 152. MODEL 1807 SPRINGFIELD INDIAN CARBINE; .1 Model 1807 Springfield Indian Carbine, Original Configuration; .2 Model 1807 Springfield Indian Carbine, 1814 Cadet Alteration; .3 Model 1807 Springfield Indian Carbine, 1830-1832 Cadet Alterations; 153. U.S. CONTRACT ARMS FOR THE INDIANS; .1 Pre-1803 Indian Rifles; .2 Tench Coxe Contract Indian Rifles; .3 Indian Arms Procured by the Office of Indian Trade and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; 155. MODEL 1814 U.S. CONTRACT RIFLE

.2 Deringer Variant Pattern Model 1814 U.S. Contract Rifle

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9786613577917

9781280399992

1280399996

9780826349996

0826349994

OCLC:

795894679