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Colonel Carrington (Roy Gordon) and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sioux Indian territory of Wyoming during the 1880s. The Colonel recruits former cavalry soldiers turned frontier scouts Jim Bridger (Dennis Morgan) and "Dakota Jack" Gaines (Richard Denning), now running a Wild West show, to head the fort building.
The Gun is a nonfiction book written by journalist C. J. Chivers about the AK-47 rifle and its variants, and the impact they have had on the world.It covers the origins of the design, its invention and distribution, and the consequences of the pattern's spread around the world.
Winchester rifle is a comprehensive term describing a series of lever action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.Developed from the 1860 Henry rifle, Winchester rifles were among the earliest repeaters.
S. Sawed-off shotgun; Sharps & Hankins model 1862 carbine; Sharps rifle; Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878; Slocum revolver; Smith & Wesson Model 1; Smith & Wesson Model 1 1/2
With thousands of rifles in the hands of the average pioneer, the Winchester repeating rifles gained a reputation as "The Gun that Won the West". [ 3 ] Oliver Winchester was also active in politics, serving as a New Haven City Commissioner, Republican Presidential elector in 1864 , and as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1866 to 1867.
Pestana, Carla Gardina The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire, Harvard University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780674737310; Venables, Robert; Firth, CH (1900). The Narrative of General Venables: With an Appendix of Papers Relating to the Expedition to the West Indies and the Conquest of Jamaica, 1654–1655. Longman Green.
The Gun is a novel by C.S. Forester about an imaginary series of incidents involving a single eighteen-pounder cannon during the Peninsular War (1807–1814). The book was first published in 1933 and has as its background the brutal war of liberation of Spanish and Portuguese forces (regular and partisans) and their British allies against the occupying armies of Napoleonic France.
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