Young Guns Keifer Southerland, Charlie Sheen Life in the Old West for a superhuman gunfighter 1880 Great Expectations Anthony Hopkins Classic tale of Pip in Victorian England 1880 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman Tale of the old west... Eastwood style 1885 Carry on up the...
Gunpowder emerged from China and began to spread around the globe in the 13th century, leading to advancements in the tools of war that wrought destruction in Europe and elsewhere. Explore the use of gunpowder in cannons by the Ottoman Turks, the evolution of guns and novel war tactics in Eu...
6. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 By Anthony Reid | Used Price: 90% Off Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical...
Soldiers in today's modern armies have access to ever more advanced infantry weapons. Guns have become more sophisticated, lighter to carry, more accurate and easier to load. The well-oiled machinery of warfare has never stopped moving forward. It's a technological advancement that can leave som...
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In Europe, Russia became the first country to buy Gatling guns directly from Colt while the British W.G. Armstrong & Co. became one of the first European manufacturers to purchase a license to build and sell the new weapons The first British use of the Gatling gun came in 1879 during ...
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U.S. Army Europe Images, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Machine guns changed the face of warfare. They industrialized the way wars were fought. They were among the most used weapons during World War I and World War II. With dozens of designs and variations that the US had made, ...
In particular, the pre-war occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and the seizure of the large and sophisticated Czech arms industry, provided a windfall of tanks. Then came the 1940 conquest of France and most of Western Europe, which netted thousands of French (and some British) vehicles and...