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Three Presidents and the gun
Three of our presidents have been particularly fascinated by guns: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. But all different reasons.
Washington has been what we might call an "early adopter" of rifle technology. Already in the French and Indian War (1754-1763), after was first appointed in the border war, the young officer, owner of his own ambitious weapon. This was a time when few, in addition to pioneers, but he knew what was.
In 1775, for example, how well informed a man as John Adams told his wife Abigail that he had heard recently about a "clean" type of weapon that had "grooves in the barrel, and [led] to the ball with great precision over long distances."
Muskets – which, unlike the guns were smoothbore short-range and monstrously inaccurate weapons – that was all I knew. However, finding a history of the New York Mercury reports twenty years before somewhere in the desert, a then-obscure "Col. Washington," accompanied with firearms "Lumberjack" was strongly supported by the Indian hunting French invaders.
But why the rifle? Why Washington insists on leading a field of battle (and purchasing several more – specially designed course – for the game)? Originally, it was because rifles were better suited as weapons to fight the border that favored Fleety, camouflaged, loosely organized bands of men who travel light and the skill with trees, ravines and rocks to select their targets and snipe at the enemy. Washington was not, but a practical man.
But it was also very sensitive to the symbolism and the time of the Revolution the rifle was known as pioneers arms legendary – even if poor John Adams to be as confusing as ever. Washington Crossing call for shooters Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland, to join him on the seat British forces in Boston in the summer of 1775 was designed to impress and inspire the people of New England settlers armed with guns "American" qualities: brave and rugged individualism, self-reliance and independent spirit determined to defend their home and home.
Guns, however, would place were not ideal for the type of war by the army against the army, which dominated much of the war and play a small business in general, but Washington was more interested in what they mean (or symbol) did (or performed, in other words).
Lincoln was quite the opposite. I had no idea what rifles "Meant", but was fascinated by what they were doing and how they worked. Lincoln, unlike Washington, was a mechanical mind.
Already 1855, has closely followed the evolution of firearms. He knew, for example, a copy of your treasure each year scientific research years, debate between supporters of the new head (which is charged through an opening behind the barrel and activation above) and those of traditional muzzleloaders. A companion of his youth, Henry Clay Whitney, recalled his friend's insatiable curiosity. While on the road, stopped at a local farm … For dinner, where Lincoln would a machine or tool, and carefully examine all the cases, could be tested in the same practice, which would turn round and round and duck or lie, if necessary, look at it, examine it carefully, then outside and watch from a distance, but a movement, lift it, roll it that eventually overwhelmed, and determine the qualities and usefulness in it. "
During the Civil War, Lincoln Calls for weapons designers in White House and outside his makeshift shooting range in the back garden where you can sample their products. Sometimes rescinded its own experts and asked to buy several thousand of the latest experimental rifles.
Lincoln was neither a designer nor ballistician not even a good shot (one of the bullets was diverted and crashed by Mrs. Grady window of 15 to cross the street, the robbery in his living room and the house itself on the opposite wall). To him, rifles were practical instruments of war, it symbolizes nothing. It was a typical American design technology in the middle of the century: the man was a genius inventor of the specific tools used.
During the days of Theodore Roosevelt at the turn of the century to find a simple joy in the mechanics of things were disappearing. Many people are increasingly alarmed by the increasing prevalence of industrialization in their lives, some feared that the emergence of "scientific management" (also known as Taylorism) in the factories, workers have turned into machines themselves for reasons of efficiency and profit. The essence of humanity was the game
Roosevelt thought such concerns overblown. What alarmed most was that, seeing the spirit of "Americanism" has been eroded by social factors such as immigration. He intended to use the gun to revive the concept. The weapon that was instrumental in the creation of Springfield has been the model 1903, which proclaimed that all Americans would have on modern principles of Taylorite. It is used as a hunting arm of personnel, and the whole army has been published with them. (In that time the army was killed by a piece of Norway, the Krag-Jorgensen.) Beautifully made and enjoy the highest level of performance, showed the gun competition strength and confidence in the future. For the president, so his rifle to say is as important as what he did.
Roosevelt In Springfield, the symbolism of Washington and viability of Lincoln finally merged and became the first modern American rifles. An old book (Brown's History of Artillery in the First World War published in 1920), I read while writing my own, American Rifle: A Biography, summed up: "It's amazing to consider how the characteristics National integrated mechanical design. "So
© 2008 Alexander Rose
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Born in the USA, Alexander Rose grew in Australia and Britain. A military historian and former journalist, is author of Washington's spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring, and his work has been published The New York Observer, the Washington Post, Studies in Intelligence, and many other publications.
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