Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A longhunter (or long hunter) was an 18th-century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier for as much as six months at a time. While historian Emory Hamilton says that "The Long Hunter was peculiar to Southwest Virginia only...", many also hailed from North Carolina's western piedmont.
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Pages in category "18th-century weapons" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ...
Military equipment introduced in the 1790s (1 P) W. 18th-century weapons (33 P) Weapons and ammunition introduced in the 18th century (2 C) This page was ...
Henry Skaggs (January 8, 1724 – December 4, 1810. Occasional alternative spellings: "Skeggs" and "Scaggs") was an American longhunter, explorer and pioneer, active primarily on the frontiers of Tennessee and Kentucky during the latter half of the 18th century.
18th-century military equipment (3 C) 19th-century military equipment (10 C, 1 P) 20th-century military equipment (18 C, 4 P) 21st-century military equipment (6 C, 2 ...
The hunting dagger (German: Hirschfänger, "deer catcher") is an 18–30-inch (460–760 mm) long German dagger, used to kill deer and boar. [1] It is a weapon mainly used in the fancy hunts of the German nobility. This dagger developed from medieval hunting swords which were longer and mainly used by mounted hunters. Today hunting daggers are ...
This page was last edited on 26 September 2019, at 14:04 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The 12-pounder long gun was an intermediary calibre piece of artillery mounted on warships of the Age of Sail. They were used as main guns on the most typical frigates of the early 18th century, on the second deck of fourth-rate ships of the line, and on the upper decks or castles of 80-gun and 120-gun ships of the line.