These forgotten weapons are landmines we’re found metal detecting and used in the American Civil War and are a rare part of history that forever changed warfare. They were used by the ...

Accuracy improved among weapons used in the Civil War compared to previous conflicts, too. Revolutionary War muskets could be lethal up to 175 yards but were really only accurate at a range of ...

Revolutionary Firepower: How Civil War Weapons Changed Combat. The Civil War was by far the most deadly war in American history. The bloody four-year conflict between the northern and southern ...

Overview of the Lesson - Landmines and the American Civil War. Author Ken Rutherford provides an overview of his lecture about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on ...

US to sanction Sudan after finding chemical weapons used in civil war. Sudan’s army-aligned government denies allegations that it has used chemical weapons in war against paramilitary rivals.

The weapons that they carried, however, were very different. The "spar torpedoes" Confederate submersibles used had little in common with the torpedoes we know today.

The weapons were sold to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi during a proxy war between a coalition of Gulf States and Iranian-backed Houthi ... US defense companies sued by Yemenis over weapons used in civil war.

Chemical weapons were used to terrible effect during World War I. More than 1.3 million soldiers were exposed to chemical weapons during the Great War and 100,000 died directly as a result of ...