The guerrilla's principal weapon was the .36 caliber 1851 Navy Colt revolver. This gun was named for its inventor, Samuel Colt, a native of Hartford, Connecticut, who as a young man designed the ...

Percussion-cap guns are in general use. 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms.

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This is especially the case with the budget of the Department of the Navy. The bad news: the current Navy budget will not make a stronger military or a larger U.S. fleet a reality. The good news ...

"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace." - Theodore Roosevelt "I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he ...

The Army-Navy game occupies a special, yet peculiar position on the college football calendar. Its significance is undeniable, given the history, ferocity and pageantry of the rivalry. It stands ...

Please startle even us football-god atheists. Please give us what you have been hinting you might provide: a December aglow with two Army-Navy games. One Army-Navy game per year qualifies as manna.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- On a hot, sunny, September morning, hundreds of Midshipmen, dressed in their matching fatigues for a "tactical Thursday," crisscrossed Navy's campus to get to their next class ...

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No. 12 Notre Dame secured a crucial 51-14 win against No. 24 Navy Saturday, extending the winning streak against its old rival to seven games and logging another crucial bullet point on its ...