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The Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroyed the fortified Indian village Mabila in present-day Alabama in the United States. Exact death toll is unknown, but contemporary Spanish accounts reported between 2,500 and 3,000 dead... Read more ...
The Battle of Mabila
The Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroyed the fortified Indian village Mabila in present-day Alabama in the United States. Exact death toll is unknown, but contemporary Spanish accounts reported between 2,500 and 3,000 dead Indians. If the numbers are correct, the battle of Mabila is among the bloodiest in American history.
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The Martini-Henry rifle was the British military service rifle from the end of the 1880\'s. It served on all continents and was a powerful and reliable rifle. This article is the first part in a series of two on the Martini-Henry rifles. This part deals about the background history of the Martini-Henry rifles.
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- The Technical Evolution of Firearms from the Medieval Ages until 1900.
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- Hunting with Black Powder Firearms — Then and Now.
- The Flint and Percussion Locks.
- Loading with Roundball and Patch.
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- The Percussion Revolver.
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