The last war to use only muzzle-loaded guns. 1859 - The first full rim-fire cartridge. 1860 - Spencer repeating carbine patented. Introduced at the start of the Civil War, Spencer repeating guns ...

HOMES: The rare fieldworks from the English Civil War are by Tamar Close in Ronkswood ... of monument representing the only evidence on the ground of military campaigns fought in England since the ...

The revolver was a technological breakthrough ... Samuel Colt died only a year into the Civil War, but his company continued to produce new, deadlier models. The 1860 Army Colt shot ...