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Colt Navy 1851: The revolver that defined an era

Sleek, balanced, and deadly accurate, the Colt Navy became one of the most popular revolvers of the 19th century. Its use in the Civil War and on the frontier made it a symbol of American grit.
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In 1958, Val Forgett of Navy Arms contracted with Beretta engineer Aldo Uberti to produce 1,000 reproductions of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver. That turned into the beginning of many decades of ...
Britannia may have ruled the waves for much of the 19th Century, but it was the Mexican Navy who had the most technologically advanced ships of the time — until Texas and the Republic of Yucatán got ...
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