British Ordnance Muskets identifies and analyses in detail eighteen ordnance muskets from the 1830s and 1840s. As well as providing the history and details of the muskets of this important period when the Ordnance transitioned from flintlock to percussion arms, it also covers the impact of two arms shortages, material losses suff ered in the Tower of London fire (1841) and the obsolescence of all existing arms for the Militia and Volunteers. By consulting original records, Adrian Roads also off ers much about the gun contractors themselves: what drove them, what irked them and their capacity for work. It includes several appendices that facilitate in-depth research into any British ordnance percussion musket held in a collection or under consideration for acquisition, making it an
invaluable resource for researchers, students of arms and collectors alike. The only book to comprehensively analyse British muskets from this period, written with De Witt Bailey, the foremost expert on small arms of the 1700 and 1800s.
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De Witt Bailey is the foremost expert on small arms of the 1700 and 1800s
Part 1 ~ 'Pre-Pattern' Muskets 1. Early percussion Musket Experiments 2. Converted India Pattern Percussion Muskets 3. India Pattern 'Type 3' Muskets 4. Converted New Land Pattern Percussion Muskets Part 2 ~ Infantry Muskets 5. Pattern 1838 Musket ~ Foot Guards 6. Pattern 1839 Musket ~ Line Regiments 7. Fire at the Tower of London 8. Pattern 1842 Musket ~ Line Regiments Part 3 ~ Extra Service Muskets 9. Pattern 1843 Enrolled Pensioners Musket 10. Pattern 1844 Coast Guard Musket 11. Pattern 1845 Extra Service Musket Part 4 ~ Serjeant's Muskets 12. Pattern 1840 Serjeant's Musket 13. Pattern 1843 Serjeant's Musket 14. Pattern 1845 Serjeant's Extra Service Musket Part 5 ~ Sea Service Muskets 15. Pattern 1837 Sea Service Musket 16. Altered Pattern 1842 Rifled Musket ~ Marines 17. Altered Pattern 1842 Sea Service Rifled Musket Part 6 ~ Ordnance Muskets 18. Pattern 1841 Sappers & Miners Musket 19. Pattern 1843 Sappers & Miners Musket 20. Pattern 1843 Royal Artillery Musket Part 7 ~ General 21. Bayonets 22. Implements 23. Ammunition 24. Regimental Markings 25. Ordnance Markings 26. Arms Shortages ~ late 1830s and Mid-1850s 27. George Lovell ~ a biology in brief 28. Re-use of Resources
