Following the Civil War, Prussia and Austria made drastic changes that aided their artillery such as the Prussian’s reliance on steel breech-loading rifles that improved their training. Artillery in ...

A dig at a Civil War battle ... means of building up artillery units during the Civil War. They featured cast-iron tapered barrels with muzzles thinner than the breech in order to save weight.

After all, he might be the only man in America who's building an addition to house five Civil War artillery pieces. He has also collected locks of hair from Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Jeb ...

A shooter uses one hand for firing, and a prop to steady the gun.The first device, or "lock," for mechanically ... repeating gun of the Civil War. 1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use.

Any Civil War buff is familiar with the technological advances of that era: the carnage caused when tactics failed to accommodate breech-loading rifled muskets and artillery pieces, the truly ...

Muzzle loading firearms gave way to breach-loading repeating rifles, while the Gatling Gun was employed in small numbers. Fifty years before the Civil War ... and to direct artillery fire.

The Civil War nearly claimed another casualty after an archaeologist discovered a live artillery round buried under a foot of dirt at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Park ...

In the summer of 1863, Union and Confederate soldiers met at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Today ... bullet-shaped artillery shell buried underground at Gettysburg National ...

and Ireland’s Civil War began with the firing of the field guns, last used in Dublin, and indeed on the Four Courts, by the British during the rebellion of 1916. The use of artillery to oust the ...