Description
Book SynopsisBritish Ordnance Muskets identifies and analyses in detail 18 ordnance muskets from the 1830s and 1840s. As well as providing the history and details of the muskets of this important period when the Ordnance transitioned from flintlock to percussion arms, it also covers the impact of two arms shortages, material losses suffered in the Tower of London fire (1841) and the obsolescence of all existing arms for the Militia and Volunteers. By consulting original records, Adrian Roads also offers much about the gun contractors themselves: what drove them, what irked them and their capacity for work. It includes several appendices that facilitate in-depth research into any British ordnance percussion musket held in a collection or under consideration for acquisition, making it an invaluable resource for researchers, students of arms and collectors alike.
Table of ContentsPart 1 ~ ‘Pre-Pattern’ Muskets
1. Early percussion Musket Experiments
2. Converted India Pattern Percussion Muskets
3. India Pattern ‘Type 3’ Muskets
4. Converted New Land Pattern Percussion Muskets
Part 2 ~ Infantry Muskets
5. Pattern 1838 Musket ~ Foot Guards
6. Pattern 1839 Musket ~ Line Regiments
7. Fire at the Tower of London
8. Pattern 1842 Musket ~ Line Regiments Part 3 ~ Extra Service Muskets
9. Pattern 1843 Enrolled Pensioners Musket
10. Pattern 1844 Coast Guard Musket
11. Pattern 1845 Extra Service Musket
Part 4 ~ Serjeant’s Muskets
12. Pattern 1840 Serjeant’s Musket
13. Pattern 1843 Serjeant’s Musket
14. Pattern 1845 Serjeant’s Extra Service Musket
Part 5 ~ Sea Service Muskets
15. Pattern 1837 Sea Service Musket
16. Altered Pattern 1842 Rifled Musket ~ Marines
17. Altered Pattern 1842 Sea Service Rifled Musket
Part 6 ~ Ordnance Muskets
18. Pattern 1841 Sappers & Miners Musket
19. Pattern 1843 Sappers & Miners Musket
20. Pattern 1843 Royal Artillery Musket
Part 7 ~ General
21. Bayonets
22. Implements
23. Ammunition
24. Regimental Markings
25. Ordnance Markings
26. Arms Shortages ~ late 1830s and Mid-1850s
27. George Lovell ~ a biology in brief
28. Re-use of Resources
