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Features, Interviews April 5, 2019 April 4, 2019

This Week on Dispatches: Matthew Moss on the Ferguson Breech-Loading Rifle

by Editors

In this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews British historian Matthew Moss and the story of Major Patrick Ferguson and the first breech-loading rifle adopted…

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Techniques & Tech March 20, 2017 March 13, 2017

The prowess of American riflemen: a mystery now solved

by Ian Saberton

In his Colonel George Hanger to all Sportsmen, and particularly to Farmers and Gamekeepers (London, 1814) Hanger retails a diverting anecdote about the prowess…

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Techniques & Tech July 10, 2013 August 28, 2016

Charles Willson Peale’s “Riffle with a Tellescope to it”

by Hugh T. Harrington

When one thinks of a telescopic sight on a rifle one does not think of the Revolutionary War. However strange, there was one documented…

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1. Douglas R Dorney Lord Rawdon at Camden—Giving a Victor His Due: Occupation and Pacification

On July 1, 1780, Rawdon wrote Rugeley that he would award " the inhabitants ten guineas for the head of any deserter belonging to the Volunteers of Ireland, and five…
2. David Price Ten Crucial Days, Five Crucial Factors

I think you're absolutely right, Bill - that's a point I make in the manuscript I'm working on that's a very extended version of the article. Thanks for your comments,…
3. Bill Welsch Ten Crucial Days, Five Crucial Factors

David! Great article. Thanks. I always think of luck when I hear contingency. A fancier term. I’ve stressed luck on my tours. I would add what I consider another example…