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There was scant warmth in the winter sunlight, and Sergeant Edward H. Cobb's lips must have been chapped and his neck windgalled by 40 miles of hard riding across the [...]

Alcohol abuse has been a problem for armies ever since the first sip of barley malt passed the lips of a Sumerian spearman. The problem continues to challenge both commanders [...]

Dawn was just bleeding into the eastern horizon that morning in March 1846 when a Comanche raiding party drove a herd of stolen stock across a dry ford to the [...]

James Dunn thought his time had come, that this mild day in early 1841 would be his last. Hands bound and body lashed to the saddle of a Comanche pony, [...]

The Crimean War of 1854 between the British Nocks who used the Baker rifled carbines and an order for carbines placed by the British with the Sharp Rifle Manufacturing Co. is described. The Sharp carbines were also used in India in the mutiny of 1858 and came to be known as 'Khyber Korans' or 'Beecher's Bible'.

AMEDD Dateline Wayne R. Austerman, PhD ([dagger]) 1 Jan Peter Hawkins of Richmond, VA, was the first documented black dentist practicing in what is now the United States. Catering to [...]

It was one of the most popular military and civilian rifles of its day, won glory in two major wars and saw service along the Western frontier from the Rio [...]

The powerful .44-caliber cap-and-ball Walker Colt and its lighter-framed, shorter-barreled derivative, the Model 1848 Colt Dragoon revolver, were hits on the Western frontier after the Mexican War. But before that [...]

When Samuel Colt patented the first practical revolving pistol design early in he kindled the torch of legend for what became one of the most famous firearms in Western history. [...]

Army ordnance officers at the Victoria Barracks in Sydney politely showed 24-year-old inventor Evelyn Owen the door in July 1939 when he came calling with the .22-caliber 'machine carbine' he'd [...]