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    handguns, the Colt Single Action Army (also known as the Peacemaker and Colt 45). Total production numbers of the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver were exceeded...
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    The Colt Model 1861 Navy cap & ball .36-caliber revolver was a six-shot, single-action percussion weapon produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from...
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    The Colt Model 1848 Percussion Army Revolver is a .44 caliber revolver designed by Samuel Colt for the U.S. Army's Regiment of Mounted Rifles. The revolver...
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    artillery troops, and naval forces. The Colt 1860 Army uses the same size frame as the .36 caliber 1851 Navy revolver. The frame is relieved to allow the...
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    ammunition feed. Famous revolver models include the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, the Webley, the Colt Single Action Army, the Colt Official Police, Smith &...
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    The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson...
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    Short Colt, also known as .38 SC, is a heeled bullet cartridge intended for metallic cartridge conversions of the cap and ball Colt 1851 Navy Revolver from...
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    model's patent. Colt Paterson (1836) Colt Walker (1847) Colt Dragoon (1848) Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (1849) Colt 1851 Navy (1851) Colt 1855 Sidehammer...
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    production of the first Colt revolvers in 1836 up to 1851, the American Colt's Manufacturing company held a monopoly in revolver production in the United...
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    that 30 Rangers used Colt's revolvers to keep over 300 Mexicans in check. Colt followed this design with the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, which was larger than...
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    Open Top revolvers were marked COLT'S/PATENT, later models sported the so-called "Two July" patent marking, also found on the 1851 Navy-, 1861 Navy- and 1860...
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    This is a list of single- and double-action revolvers, listed alphabetically by manufacturer. The table is sortable for every column. List of firearms...
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    loading the main chamber. Some other early types of revolvers, such as the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, required the user to place the hammer at half-cock...
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    "modern" revolver) was the Colt M1889 .38 Government (.38 Long Colt) used by the Navy, and/or the improved version for the Navy and Army, the Colt M1892...
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    smaller .36 cal Colt Navy revolvers), and the speed of the Adams trigger-cocking action for close-quarters fighting (over the more cumbersome Colt action). In...
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  • the cast through over three months of training. To age Cort's Colt 1851 Navy Revolver and the other guns used, Reed experimented with simple measures...
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    64 inches. They were mainly based upon the Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver developed by Elisha K. Root. Colt revolving pistols and rifles were attractive...
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    Handgun (section Revolvers)
    Colt. The Colt 1851 Navy Revolver is a cap and ball revolver that was designed by Samuel Colt between 1847 and 1850. The six-round .36 caliber Navy revolver...
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    one shot into the palanquin containing Ii, with a Japanese-made Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, which had been copied from the firearms that Commodore Matthew...
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  • Model 10 S&W Model 66 Ruger M108 Revolver M1905 Marine 1873 Colt Single Action Colt M1861 Navy Colt 1851 Navy Revolver Harper's Ferry Model 1805 Beretta...
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    Webley Longspur (category Early revolvers)
    for both large holster revolvers for cavalry and small pocket revolvers for self-defense. Colt presented his revolvers at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London...
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    Pepper-box (redirect from Allen's revolver)
    popular among gold miners in Australia as a cheaper alternative to the Colt Navy revolver, and several were used at the Eureka Stockade. Multi-shot percussion...
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    the main weapon of standard bearers (along with the Colt Army Model 1860 and Colt 1851 navy revolver) and hospital stewards, as well as a secondary weapon...
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  • Machine Works Augusta, Georgia Revolvers Leech & Rigdon Augusta, Georgia Produced a variant of the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver Or "Leech & Rigdon" Bellona Arsenal...
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    The Webley Revolver (also known as the Webley Top-Break Revolver or Webley Self-Extracting Revolver) was, in various designations, a standard issue service...
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  • artifacts including U.S. General Joseph K. Mansfield's ivory-handled Colt 1851 Navy revolver, shako military hats that dated to the Mexican–American War, Lt...
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  • the Colt Walker, Colt Dragoon Revolver, Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver, Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, and Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver. Other...
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    Firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt demonstrated his prototype for the 1851 Colt Navy and also his older Walker and Dragoon revolvers. The Tempest prognosticator...
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  • Company Colt 1851 Navy (US – revolver1851) Colt Army Model 1860 (US – revolver – 1860) Colt Dragoon Revolver (US – revolver – 1848) Colt House Revolver (US...
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    each commissioned officer of the early Alabama companies with a Colt 1851 Navy Revolver. Four officers with the Crocheron Light Dragoons were presented...
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