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April 21, 2014

Recent Recap
Again, it’s been a little while since I did a recap, with not posting as much as I’d like (I can thank working a 55 hour week for that), I have still tried to get at least one post out a day. So there have been lots of Quotes of the Day and quite a few Historical Trivia posts with some interesting topics like Pancho Villa’s involvement with early American cinema and the Sam Colt’s first patent. Yesterday also saw the return of the Ordnance of the Week series looking at an experimental .90 caliber autocannon developed by Colt. There was also a look at the wartime career of Margaret Bourke-White, the first female war correspondent.
There have also been posts on America’s first Maxim gun, Dreadnoughts, the Reising submachine gun, the Webley No.5 revolver and the Vickers arms company.
Also this month Historical Firearms became changed its URL to historicalfirearms.info, a little easier to type into the address bar.
Thank you to all the people who have followed over the last couple of weeks, I hope you’re enjoying the content and thank you all for reading, liking and reblogging!
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Firearms:
Maxim Model of 1904
Webley No.5 Army Express
Reising Submachine Gun Adverts
Ordnance Of The Week:
Colt anti-tank .90 caliber Automatic Weapon, 1941
Miscellaneous History Posts:
Margaret Bourke-White: The First Woman to Fly on a Combat Mission with the US Air force
Dreadnoughts
The Vickers Arms Company
Historical Trivia:
Samuel Colt’s First Patent
Pancho Villa - The Media Savvy Revolutionary
Neville Chamberlain: Acclaim to Shame
Quote of the Day:
Captain John Parker, to his men at Lexington on 19th April, 1775
Napoleon, on the use of religion in maintaining social order
Major General John Burgoyne on the importance of the bayonet
Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Butler, on the importance of intelligence in both scholars and soldiers
Extract from the report of an officer evaluating the Gatling Gun in tests at Washington Navy Yard in May & July 1863
President Benjamin Harrison, on how the US should not act as Policeman of the World
Sir Walter Raleigh, describing the importance of naval supremacy to the creation of empire and the projection of power
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