lock is marked Charleville : of Frenchmanufacture. In 1799 and 1800, Eli Whitney, Whitneyville.Conn., undertook the manufacture of muskets for the UnitedStates at the Springfield Armory, taking as a model the French* Charleville, flint-lock musket, that being the most improvedarm in use in Europe… … Rl-:VOLUTIONARV .SWIVEL IRON CANXUN 54 ILLISTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE
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