Coffey, Walter: “Confederates Confront the Indianola,” February 1, 2018, https://civilwarmonths.com/tag/c-s-s-william-h-webb/ Frazier, Donald S.: Cottonclads!: The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series), State House Press, ...
With a need for shallow draft gunboats in the Asiatic Fleet to work China’s civil war-torn inland waterways during the country’s Warlord Era,Penguinlanded her sweeping gear and, recommissioned 13 October 1923 along with sisterUSS Pigeon (AM-47), would spend the nextseven years on China s...
In time, large numbers of civilians in numerous quarantine zones came to believe in the Fireflies' idea of living under their own rule rather than that of the military's.[6][9][7] By the 2020s, numerous QZs fell into civil war between the citizens and FEDRA's soldiers, ranging from...
During World War II, US demolition crews faced the critical task of dismantling enemy fortifications and obstacles, sometimes under fire. They lacked a dedicated vehicle for this in the US arsenal. Various tools, like dozer blade kits and high-explosive rounds, were employed instead. This gap ...
“When Clifton arrived on the track; And waived his flaming tail, Mongrels and Morrills lagged behind, And in the distance trail” –from “The greatest of Morgan Sires” by Allen W. Thompsom Between this match race and the beginning of the Civil War, Clifton was apparently sold by F....
This might be filed under “Latin found in the least expected places”, in this case on the handle of a revolver presented to a recipient of the VC after the Battle of Rorke’s Drift. But I’ve never made any bones about Lugubelinus being a repository for utterly random stuff that hap...
After the first four years the Brady Bill was enacted, a quarter million felons and nuts were prevented from buying handguns. They say that this nation was founded on guns and they are wrong. It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the gun manufacturers tooled up for mass production. ...
This is good solid example of a U.S. purchased Colt 1851 Navy Revolver. Many of these 1850's vintage US Gov't Navies went on to see use in the Civil War with Cavalry regiments. This particular gun is a standard Model 1851 with small triggerguard, .36 Caliber, 7.5" barrel, and Hart...
Last month, with no inkling of the behind-the-scenes operation just revealed in Time, Iwroteof a non-kinetic“fifth-generation”civil war that had unfolded as“a battle for hearts and minds, a series of psychological operations that played out on the media, political and economic fronts.”I...
Ruger similarly attributed the appetite for its rifles, revolvers and pistols to concerns about personal protection in the context of “protests, demonstrations and civil unrest in many cities throughout the United States”, and calls in the wake of Floyd’s death to “defund” law enforcement....