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Gunpowder Manufacturing of Yusef Abad (باروت سازی یوسف آباد), and later the Gunpowder Magazine of Tehran (باروتخانه تهران Bārūt-Khāneh-ye Tehrān), was a gunpowder magazine near Tehran which was built during the Qajar dynasty. Nothing remains of this building today, and its exact location is unknown.
Jeff Cooper was born in Los Angeles where he enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps [2] at Los Angeles High School. [3] Cooper then enrolled at Stanford University, where he lettered in fencing, and he graduated from Stanford in 1941 with a bachelor's degree in political science. [4]
Powder magazine at Poste-de-Traite-de-la-Métabetchouane; Powder House Square; Powder Magazine (Blue Ball, Arkansas) Powder Magazine (Camp Drum) Powder Magazine (Charleston, South Carolina) Powder Magazine (Montgomery, Alabama)
Demand for gunpowder declined when the civil war ended, but picked up briefly during the Franco-Prussian War [12] and Russo-Turkish War. [8] Oriental Powder Company was ranked 4th (after DuPont, Laflin & Rand, and Hazard) among the six companies of the United States Gunpowder Trade Association popularly known as the powder trust. [13]
Powder tower or powder house, a building used to store gunpowder or explosives; common until the 20th century; Gunpowder magazine, a building designed to store gunpowder in wooden barrels; historical successor to the above; Magazine (artillery), an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored
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 ...
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Drawing of the octagonal Williamsburg Magazine. On the early morning of April 21, 1775 Royal Navy sailors went to the Williamsburg powder magazine, loaded fifteen half barrels of powder into the governor's wagon, and transported it to the eastern end of the Quarterpath Road to be loaded aboard the Magdalen in the James River. The act was ...