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The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket , operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) calibre .
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In addition to building new firearms, W.J. Jeffery & Co was a trader in second hand firearms, by 1892 offering over 1000 for sale. In 1898 the firm opened a shop at 13 King Street, St James's , and by 1900 the company was a full-scale gunmaker with a workshop at 1 Rose and Crown Yard, near to the King Street shop.
The magazine fed vertically, rather than sideways as in the Sten. The Welgun had a folding stock. When this was folded to lie over the barrel and body of the gun, the overall length of the weapon was a little over 16 inches, allowing easy carriage and concealment.
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Major General William Brattle The Powder House ("Magazine") is near the northern edge of this detail from a 1775 map of the siege of Boston.. In 1772, many of the thirteen British colonies, in response to unpopular British actions and the negative British reaction to the Gaspee Affair (the destruction by colonists of a grounded ship involved in enforcing customs regulations), elected to form ...
During the night of June 3 or early morning of June 4, 1775, a spring-gun set by the British to protect the military stores in the Magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia, [15] wounded two young men who had broken in. The subsequent outrage by the local population proved to be the final act of the Gunpowder Incident, leading Governor Dunmore to flee ...