Название: The "Trapdoor" Springfield: From the Little Bighorn to San Juan Hill (Osprey Weapon 62)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: True PDF
Cтраниц: 81
Размер: 17 Mb
Язык: English
Intended to replace the proliferation of different small arms fielded by US forces during the American Civil War, the "Trapdoor Springfield” was designed in 1865-66 by Erskine S. Allin. Using metallic cartridges, it could be loaded in a single action, increasing the number of shots per minute as much as fivefold. The new weapon quickly proved its worth in two separate incidents in August 1867: small groups of US soldiers and civilians armed with the trapdoor repulsed numerically superior Native American contingents. A simple and cost-effective weapon, it was used, along with its variants in every US conflict in the three decades after the Civil War, especially on the American frontier.