Description: Widely regarded as the best single-volume survey of the subject, this scholarly, well-written, carefully documented work includes more than 300 striking illustrations cataloguing an immense variety of firearms, ammunition, edged weapons, and armor. In its meticulous coverage of arms and armor, the book also presents by inference a vital picture of military life during the age of colonization and exploration, the French wars, and the American Revolution. In addition, a valuable Appendix provides information on the equipment owned by the average citizen or soldier, and describes the supplies of the standard colonial arsenal. A new Introduction by Beverly Straube of the Association for the Reservation of Virginia Antiquities completes this entertaining and authoritative history.

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