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Don’t have a hand cannon in your safe?  You may want to consider a revolver that chambers the heavyweight 325 gain, .475 caliber bullet – bigger than the .44 Magnum and .454 Casull. This is the sidearm that you should be holstering in Brown Bear and Grizzly country. Ruger offers a snub-nose, less than 3 […] More

This hammerless, lever action rifle was manufactured for over 100 years (with the last new ones being shipped in 2003), and became one of the most popular big game hunting rifles in the world as well as seeing service during WWI. One key feature of this rifle is that it sported a rotary magazine vs […] More

The Yorktown campaign signaled the end of the American Revolutionary war with a defeat dealt by the American Continental Army, under General George Washington, over the British army of General Cornwallis.              With American and Frence infantry and Naval forces surrounding the army of Cornwallis in the fall of 1781, […] More

The Battle of Cowpens was the turning point of the war for the Southern Colonies during the Revolutionary War. American forces began taking back territory and towns from the British in the Carolinas.                A small and mobile force of the Southern Continental Army was mobilized on the North […] More

During the fall of 1780, Southern American Patriots delivered a blow to those still loyal to the crown – the Tories, also known as Loyalists. The battle turned out to be the largest American on American battle during the war.              The Patriotic Americans used the element of surprise to […] More

We failed in our attempt to free Rhode Island from the clutches of the British and demonstrated to the world that our alliance with the French would not bring a speedy end to the war and independence for the United States. The battle in the northern New England saw the largest engagement of forces, 17,000 […] More

Historians consider this action is the Southern Colonies as a minor action in the Revolutionary War, however, the denial of a major American port by a small force of brave Patriots had lasting effects on the confidence and support for independence on the people of the South.   General Charles Lee and Colonel William Moultrie, […] More

American commanders, General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold hoped to deliver a crushing blow to the British by taking the walled city of Quebec. Capturing the British controlled city would send a message to the world that America had the will and capacity to win the war.                […] More

The Battle of Saratoga proved to the French government that the young American colonies had the will and the ability to defeat the British and gain independence. This was critical to our success in the second  year of the American Revolution. Not only did the French provide crucial funding and supplies to the fledgling American […] More

The turning point of the American Revolutionary War was the remarkable Battle of Trenton. Similar to the Navy Battle of Midway (between 4 and 7 June, 1942), Americans were able to deceive and defeat superior forces and turn the tide of war in their favor.  General Washington wove together a strategy that incorporated human intelligence […] More

Today in Charlestown, MA, stands the 221 foot monument that marks the battle of Bunker Hill, that took place in the hills above Boston on 17 June 1775. The battle was a loss for the colonists but it also proved to be a “Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon” moment for the young Americans. The die […] More

At Concord, tensions turned to “shots fired”. American colonists, fed up with the unreasonable taxes imposed on them by the British via the Stamp Act of 1765, and irate about the 1770 massacre of Bostonians, lost their cool and turned to the musket for action. In the northeast colonies, toward the end of the 18th […] More