Since the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Army has depended on sidearms ... This list includes flintlock pistols from the earliest days of American independence to modern-day semi-automatics.

1630 - The first true flintlock. The flintlock solved ... 1854-56 - The Crimean War. The last war to use only muzzle-loaded guns. 1859 - The first full rim-fire cartridge. 1860 - Spencer repeating ...

X-rays of the flintlock didn’t tell us a lot. The pistol is heavily encrusted good, a testament to what happens after lying 300 years in the ocean.” Conservation of the weapon may reveal a ...