In the filmMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the props master took this approach by mixing old and new models of these weapons (seeour film credits here). After the Napoleonic Wars, a vast number of pistols were sold to the Mexican Army. The new filmAlamo(release date A...
Rough-and-tumble cavalry captain Johnny Houston resents being asked to take on this last assignment of playing nursemaid to an eastern debutante before he musters out of the army. Johnny understands his duty as a soldier, so turning the order down is out of the question. With a killer stal...
Eventually, only wealthy officers could afford such a luxury. By the latter half of the eighteenth century, Highland pistols had become exclusively ceremonial, an expensive accessory for a Scottish officer serving in the British army. The English crackdown on Highland culture following the defeat of ...
They were intelligent, impressive, and inspiring. Although it took them sixty years to be recognized by the Army in which they served, they are credited with opening the door to women serving in the U.S. Army. In April 1917, America declared war on Germany and joined World War I. Soon ...
And here is where one really begins to learn about the old American Indian Scouts (which, let me repeat here — those scouts who worked for the United States army were not the scouts of old). Anyway, again, another quote from THE WAY OF THE SCOUT, “You must stop looking at the trac...
s resigned to living out her life as a spinster. But a new neighbor moves next door to the orphanage she runs and her life begins to change. Stone Landry has just mustered out of the Frontier Army and has brought a pair of camels he rescued. It’ll take both of them joining forces...
On October 3, 1835, Santa Anna abolished all state legislatures in Mexico. Former Empresario to Mexico Stephen F. Austin, newly elected to command the volunteer army of Texas, issued a call to arms and placed Jim Bowie on his staff as a colonel. William B. Travis also joined the new ...
A Native American docent started to chat with me about the structure and I asked a bunch of questions. The mounds are scarce—almost non-existent now, because they were nearly all destroyed by the Army in the Indian Wars, set ablaze and collapsed. ...
November 25, 2009byMary Connealy TheU.S. Camel Corpswas an experiment by theUnited States Armyusingcamelsin theSouthwest. While the camels did the work well they were nasty and frightened horses, at least that’s the general explanation for why the program failed. ...
Those are the dry details. The fun begins with the hotel’s grand opening. It was attended by oil tycoons, cattle barons, Army officers in dress uniform, and women in the finest fashions of the day. A good time was no doubt had by all . . . except the man who married a bride na...