Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2021.1882173
R. Spears
Among the firearms in the extensive Royal Armouries collection are three unusual carbines based on the patent of William Jenks. The story of how they entered the Armouries collection highlights an important time in the development of firearms technology. The tale of these three carbines is the story of two men, William Jenks and Doctor Alexander Jones.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2021.1882174
Keith Dowen
This eagerly anticipated and invaluable publication is the product of more than forty years of meticulous research by husband and wife team and founder members of the of the International Society f...
这热切期待和宝贵的出版物是四十多年的精心研究的结果，由夫妻团队和国际社会的创始人成员…
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2021.1886746
J. Sheard
The use of special pattern swords by cavalry officers of the British and Indian Army is well documented. Whilst these swords were usually custom made to meet the requirements of individual officers, others bore regimental insignia and, more rarely, are known to have been approved as regimental patterns in lieu of the then current regulations. To date there has been very little documentation to show to what extent, if any, special patterns were widely adopted by officers of the 7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars. This paper describes extensive searches of the Wilkinson Proof Records held at the Royal Armouries, Leeds which were made in an attempt to identify such officers and to determine any uniformity in the specifications of their swords where these departed from the regulation pattern for light cavalry. Two 7th Hussars special patterns were found corresponding to periods 1857 to 1858 and 1893 to 1900, both of which gave rise to design features adopted by officers of other regiments.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2021.1882793
J. Bennett
A common feature of Turkey’s principal military-focused museums and of many local ones also, are displays of military equipment used in the First World War and in Turkey’s War of Independence (1919–1923). In many cases these are rifles and bayonets supplied by Germany to the Ottoman Empire during two specific periods: from 1887 to 1903, when Germany supplied all the modern infantry weaponry used by the Ottoman army; and from 1916 to 1918, when Berlin answered the request from Constantinople for the latest models of their own small arms. This article looks into the circumstances behind that request and the German response, with a focus on the bayonets that were provided, as these are most often seen in places open to the public today. In addition, a brief account is provided on how these rifles and bayonets remained in service use, often in a modified form, until the 1950s.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2020.1816330
G. Wilson
In May this year Lord Eden died peacefully at home at the age of 94. He lived a long and active life dedicated to public service, but for us in the Royal Armouries he will be remembered with fondne...
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2020.1796367
M. Mercer
The nineteenth century has long been seen as a century where European powers were acquiring antiquities for display in their national museums. At the forefront of this trend was the British Museum which worked in conjunction with the Foreign Office and Admiralty to bring them back to Britain. Yet current historiography of the region has ignored the role played by another leading government department, the Ordnance Office. The establishment of a permanent British military presence on Malta and in the Ionian Islands had a transformative effect on the study and acquisition of ancient, classical and medieval antiquities from the region as personnel from the civil and military establishments were now able to engage with them at first hand.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2020.1830595
D. Spencer
The remittance of the custom duties due on a consignment of Italian military equipment imported into England provides valuable information on the type of equipment used by men-at-arms during the Wars of the Roses. It offers insights into royal procurement during the early part of the reign of Edward IV and evidence of a revival of the use of heavy cavalry in English warfare.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2020.1838102
Philip A. Magrath
Fort Nelson and the Portsdown Forts were constructed between 1862 and 1871 in order to strengthen the defences of Portsmouth following fears of a French invasion and the recommendations of an 1859 Royal Commission.2 As the greatest peace-time fortification construction ever seen in Britain it is perhaps an unfortunate omission, especially for the student of artillery, that neither a detailed study exists as to the firepower of these structures at a time when rifled artillery became available for the first time nor an assessment of French artillery that could have appeared in the field against them. This article aims to redress those imbalances but firstly a degree of context is necessary.
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