Flintlock

Clad in old, ragged clothes with a parrot perched on a shoulder, black eye patches and wooden legs; these people made enemies walk planks and buried treasures on lands unknown. They are called pirates and what we know about them is just half the story of what actually happened on those ships. Piracy was an epoch in the history of civilizations and it too had a Golden Period. The Golden Period of Piracy lasted from mid-1650 to mid-1720s but it started when the Pope divided the New World between…

A red rusted old flintlock rifle rests upon an old pelt sack, from which a few black iron kettle bombs unceremoniously loll out. Beside these, a pack of survivalists gear, and a more interesting object, an old scroll capsule, dinted and aged yet perfectly sealed. Slinging…

The Duel (The Parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr) MaKayley Smallwood. Publisher: Judith St. George. # of pages: 86 (not including the Epilogue) Early on the morning of July 11,1804, two men met on the dueling grounds of Weehawken ,New Jersey. When the duel was over, one man was dead, the other a fugitive. This book is about the lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Both men were prominent figures in the life of the new nation. Alexander Hamilton had been the first…

War I shotguns were used by United States forces. Shotguns go even further back, prior to the Revolutionary war, a firearm very similar to the shotgun was issued to British forces, and that firearm was the Blunderbuss. Throughout 1760, Sea Service flintlock Blunderbuss firearms with sixteen inch barrels were issued by the British. This shows a great deal of time before this case weapons such as the one Jack Miller and Frank Layton were in possession of were being issued before the United States…

Archaeology is not just ‘digging’, although the excavation of artefacts is important, there are many more aspects involved that are all as significant. Archaeology can best be described as the study of extinct human cultures (Woodbury, 2008). There are 3 different fields of archaeologist, these being Field archaeologist, university archaeologist and museum archaeologist. A field archaeologist main point of concentration is on the excavation of sites and documenting records of their work. A…

Three Founding Nations When asked, “Who founded Canada?” the tendency is for people to reply with the notion that there are two founders: the French and English. It is due to negligence that people overlook the first residents of this land, our land; the land of the aboriginal peoples. My people where from the Plains land in the west, where we hunted buffalo and lived in tepees. It was us, along with other Native groups who were here before any Frenchman, Briton, or even Spaniard arrived here.…

Do you have an opinion on gun control? Are you looking for information on one of the world’s largest firearm producers? Remington has been a top producer of quality firearms for almost two centuries. Remington made firearms for many wars, including the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. They also made many different and reliable firearms. Eliphalet Remington was born in Suffield, Connecticut, on the 27th of October, 1793 (“Eliphalet” para. 1). Mr. Remington established a mechanical shop…

War, a large conflict between two rival powers, Resulting in great violence.This is an everchanging art that has developed throughout the ages. There are two main kinds of battles in a war. There are pitched and siege battles. Pitched battles consist of a clash between two armies in an open position. A siege battle is similar but one tries to take hold of a fortified position. Different weapons have been used throughout the ages, whether it will be the guns we use nowadays, to the ancient but…

The Diligent was written by Robert Harms and discusses the fifteen-month voyage of the Diligent to Martinique, including the world of the Atlantic slave trade. In his book, Harms uses the recently “discovered” journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand. The author of the book makes references to Durand’s journal as well as the overall Atlantic slave trade. The Diligent can be viewed as an accurate representation of what the Atlantic slave trade was like during the eighteenth century right down to…

its low ignition temperature, a flame is all that is needed to ignite the substance. As time went on, different civilizations developed safer and faster ways to light black powder. Matchlock mechanisms, where a buring object struck the powder, and flintlock mechanisms, where a hammer strikes a piece of flint sending sparks, lighting the powder, were the two most common means of…