Book description
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and
Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early
exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American
Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive
descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder arms used in
North America and detailed accounts of the development and progression
of military regulation shoulder arms of the major colonial powers from
the early eighteenth century through the Revolutionary War.
Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs
of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an
intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the
colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.
