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Queen Anne pistols are a type of breech-loading flintlock pistol known as a turn-off pistol, in which the chamber is filled from the front and accessed by unscrewing the barrel. Another distinguishing feature of the design is that the lock-plate and the breech section (chamber) of the firearm are forged as a single piece.
Queen Anne's Revenge, flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard; Queen Anne's War, the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession; Queen Anne pistol, a style of flintlock pistol with a 'turn-off' or screw-off barrel allowing it to be breach-loaded with a tight-fitting ball, popular in Britain during her reign.
Anne (centre) and her sister Mary (left) with their parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, painted by Peter Lely and Benedetto Gennari II. Anne was born at 11:39 p.m. on 6 February 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of the Duke of York (later King James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. [1]
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Queen Anne–style rowhouses located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Queen Anne style buildings in America came into vogue in the 1880s, replacing the French-derived Second Empire as the "style of the moment." The popularity of high Queen Anne Style waned in the early 1900s, but some elements continued to be found on ...
The Queen Anne was clearly a transitional style, creating a bridge between the exuberant Victorian and the. By Bud Dietrich At the end of the 19th century and early into the 20th, a popular home ...
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665–1714), queen of England and Scotland (1702–1707), Ireland (1702–1714) and of Great Britain (1707–1714) . Queen Anne style architecture, an architectural style from her reign, and its revivals
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