Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
The History of Weapons of the American Revolution
The nine known swords owned by George Washington have long fascinated collectors, but now, for the first time, they are all properly illustrated and discussed in the same place. -- Amazon.com.
Every entry has been written by a subject specialist, and is accompanied by a bibliography to aid further research. Extensively illustrated with maps, the volumes also contain a chronology of events, glossary and substantial index.
... Swords The next example is a Revolutionary War officer's saber similar to that carried by Maj. Peter Jaquett of the Delaware Line, figure 348s in George G. Neumann's wonderful book Swords and Blades of the American Revolution.
American Swords from the Philip Medicus Collection
When we examine the array of spikes commonly found on spike tomahawks (Figure 23), emphasis should be placed on their cross sections. The spikes may have all been straight when they were made or they may have been turned down to varying ...
Sybil Ludington has only one claim to fame , her Paul Revere - like ride on the night of April 26 , 1777. ... A short while earlier , Sybil's father , colonel Henry Ludington , commander of the 7th Regiment of the Dutchess County ( New ...
... sword, and knife. G. Neumann, Swords and Blades of the American Revolution, 6-15, 252-254 (1973). When the revolutionary war began, the colonists came equipped with their hunting muskets or rifles, hatchets, swords, and knives. The ...
And so begins the first tale of treachery and adventure, sword fighting and magic, myth and legend. When author Michael J. Sullivan self-published the first books of his Riyria Revelations, they rapidly became ebook bestsellers.