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The Paul Revere Capture Site marks the location where Sons of Liberty member Paul Revere was captured by a British Army patrol at around 1.30 AM on April 19, 1775, while on a midnight ride to alert nearby minutemen of the pending arrival of British troops. The capture site is marked with a plaque beside the Battle Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts ...
3,035 kilograms (6,691 lb) Length. 315.8 centimetres (124.3 in) Barrel length. 282.9 centimetres (111.4 in) Calibre. 164.7 mm [1] The 30-pounder long gun was a large piece of artillery mounted on French warships of the Age of Sail. They were the heaviest component of the unified system standardised on the 30-pounder calibre, replacing both the ...
Paul Revere (/ r ɪ ˈ v ɪər /; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.) – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington ...
Bicentennial memorial to the first Fort Independence, 6-inch disappearing emplacements at Fort Revere in background. The Harbor Defenses of Boston was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. [1] It coordinated the coast defenses of Boston, Massachusetts from 1895 to 1950, beginning with the Endicott program.
The long rifle is said by modern experts [who?] to have a range of 80 to 100 yards for the average user. An expert shooter can extend the median range of the long rifle to 200-300 yards. Although less commonly owned or seen on the frontier, the long rifle style was also used on flintlock pistols during the same era.
Founded in 1988, Liberty Safe began operating out of a single storage unit. Over the past 30 years, the company has grown from a small facility to a 205,000 square foot facility in Payson, Utah, and can produce more than 500 safes a day. As of 2018, they claim to have sold over 2 million safes during this first 30 years of operation. [4]
3-inch/50-caliber gun. The 3"/50-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50 = 150 in or 3.8 m). Different guns (identified by Mark numbers) of this caliber were used by ...
66000789 [8] Added to NRHP. 15 October 1966. USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. [9] [. Note 1] She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act ...