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brings you a class about weapons technology development during the American Revolution.

Did you know that the first rifle regiment in American history was created by Congress in 1775?

Learn more in this episode with Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart.

Now hang tight. Class starts right after this.

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Selected stores and line subject to availability offer ends 20th of April, excludes Azure Express. Well, folks, welcome to this, today's installment of history of the gun,

history 3100, where we're going to be talking about firearms in the West to 1800,

a technological development of firearms to 1800, and specifically the case of the American Revolution.

I'm Paul Douglas Lockhart, I'm a professor of history here at Wright State University, so let's get started. Today I want to, since we've been focusing so far in this course on the development of small arms in particular

in a parallel development between small arms technology and the

and the changing art of war the two things go very much hand-in-hand as we've seen

And in particular with small arms that development is kind of complicated as we've seen with artillery

The benefits of artillery are demonstrated very early on. They're immediately obvious.

Artillery can knock down castles, right?

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