Current As Of 10 December 1996

Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Military Technology


I. Manuscripts.

Massachusetts Historical Society. (Boston).

Paine, Robert Treat. Papers. [Cannon Committee

Papers].

II. Published Sources.

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Barna, Frank Carl. "A Most Intricate Department: The Commissary General of Military Stores or Ordnance Department Under Benjamin Flower and Samuel Hodgdon, 1777-1782." Master's Thesis, University of Maryland, 1984.

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Biever, Dale E. "Ordnance at Hopewell Furnace." Military Collector and Historian, 23 (Winter 1971), pp. 113-116.

Blackmore, Howard L. British Military Firearms, 1650-1850. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961; New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1962.

Boehm, Uwe-Peter, and Edwin W. Besch. "GR-Marked Hessian Muskets: Origin and Use During the American Revolution."

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Boehret, Paul C. The Committee of Safety Musket. N.P.: Privately printed, 1956.

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Calvert, Monte A. "The Search for a Domestic Source of Saltpeter for Use in Making Gunpowder, 1620-1920." Master's Thesis, University of Delaware, 1961.

Carey, Arthur Merwyn. American Firearms Makers: When, Where, and What They Made From The Colonial Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953.

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Handwork, Edna M. "First In Iron, Berks County's Iron Industry 1716 to 1815." Historical Review of Berks County, 25 (Fall 1960), pp. 120-127.

Hargreaves, Reginald. "The Fabulous Ferguson Rifle and Its Brief Combat Career: As A Military Arm, the Gun Died with Its Young Designer." American Rifleman, 119 (August 1971), pp. 33-37.

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Hicks, James E. Notes on French Ordnance, 1717 to 1936. Mt. Vernon, N.Y.: Privately printed, 1938.

-----. "United States Military Shoulder Arms, 1795-1935." (Part II with Fred Porter Todd). Military Affairs, 1 (Spring, Summer 1937), pp. 23-33, 75-79; 2 (Spring 1938), pp. 37-42.

Hollowell, M. Edgar, Jr. "The Point of Fork Arsenal." Military Collector and Historian, 22 (Spring 1970), pp. 11-13.

Holst, Donald W. "Further Notes on the King Howitzer." Military Collector and Historian, 38 (Winter 1987), pp. 162-165.

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[Honeyman, A. Van Doren, editor]. "Revolutionary War Letters Concerning the Hibernia Iron Furnace." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 8 (January, April 1923), pp. 22-30, 144-149.

Hughes, B. P. British Smooth-Bore Artillery: The Muzzle Loading Artillery of the 18th and 19th Centuries. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1968.

-----. "Firepower in the Smooth-Bore Period." Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Historical Society, (January 1975), pp. 22-37.

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Kauffman, Henry J. The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle. Harrisburg: Stackpole Co., 1960.

-----. Early American Gunsmiths, 1650-1850. Harrisburg: Stackpole Co., 1952.

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Malone, Patrick Mitchell. "Indian and English Military Systems in New England in the Seventeenth Century." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1971.

-----. "Changing Military Technology Among Indians of Southern New England, 1600-1677." American Quarterly, 25 (March 1973), pp. 48-63.

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Miles, Lion G. "The Iron Master and the Hessians." North Jersey Highlander, 17 (Summer 1981), pp. 3-26.

Miller, Robert L. "Fredericksburg Manufactory Muskets." Military Collector and Historian, 3 (September 1951), pp. 63-65.

-----, and Harold L. Peterson. "Rappahannock Forge: Its History and Products." Military Collector and Historian, 4 (December 1952), pp. 81-85.

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Nelson, William. "Beginnings of the Iron Industry in Trenton, New Jersey." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 35 (1911), pp. 228-243.

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Neumann, George C. The History of Weapons of the American Revolution. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

----. Firearms of the American Revolution 1775-1783. Washington: American Ordnance Association, 1973.

----. Edged Weapons of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. Washington: American Defense Preparedness Association, 1975.

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Nuxoll, Elizabeth M. "Congress and the Munitions Merchants: The Secret Committee of Trade during the American Revolution, 1775-1777." Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York, 1979.

Peterson, Harold L. Arms and Armor in Colonial America 1526-1783. Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1956.

----. Round Shot and Rammers. Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1969.

----. "The Military Equipment of the Plymouth and Bay Colonies: 1620-1690." New England Quarterly, 20 (July 1947), pp. 197-208.

----. "The American Cavalry Saber of the Revolution." Military Collector and Historian, 2 (September 1950), pp. 33-36.

----. "The British Infantry Musket, 1702-1783." Military Collector and Historian, 3 (December 1951), pp. 77-80.

Pleasants, Henry, Jr. "Contraband From Lorient." Military Affairs, 7 (Summer 1943), pp. 123-132.

Ransom, James M. Vanishing Ironworks of the Ramapos: The Story of the Forges, Furnaces, and Mines of the New Jersey-New York Border Area. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1966.

Rees, John. "On the Use of Tin Cartridge Boxes in the Continental Army." Military Collector and Historian, 42 (Winter 1990), pp. 150-151.

Reichman, Felix. "The Pennsylvania Rifle: A Social Interpretation of Changing Military Techniques." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 69 (January 1945), pp. 3-14.

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Rome, Adam Ward. Connecticut's Cannon: The Salisbury Iron Furnace in the American Revolution. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1977.

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Russell, Carl P. Guns on the Early Frontiers: A History of Firearms From Colonial Times through the Years of the Western Fur Trade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Salay, David Lewis. "Arming For War: The Production of War Material in Pennsylvania for the American Armies of the Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1977.

-----. "The Production of Gunpowder in Pennsylvania During the American Revolution." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 99 (October 1975), pp. 422-442.

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Wittlinger, Carlton O. "The Small Arms Industry of Lancaster County, 1710-1840." Pennsylvania History, 24 (April 1957), pp. 121-136.

Wright, John W. "The Rifle in the American Revolution." American Historical Review, 29 (January 1924), pp. 293-299.

York, Neil Longley. Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985.

----. "Technology in Revolutionary America, 1760-1790." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1978.

----. "Clandestine Aid and The American Revolutionary War Effort: A Reexamination." Military Affairs, 43 (February 1979), pp. 26-30.

----. "Pennsylvania Rifle: Revolutionary Weapon in a Conventional War." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 103 (July 1979), pp. 302-324.

Zlatich, Marko, editor. "Colors of Ordnance Carriages, 1780." Military Collector and Historian, 16 (Fall 1964), pp. 85-86.