Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract
On January 4, 1847, Connecticut gun manufacturer Samuel Colt rescues the future of his faltering gun company by winning a contract to provide the U.S. government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers for use in the Mexican-American War. Colt had received a U.S. patent for a revolver mechanism in …
Samuel Colt
Samuel Walker
U.S. government
Eli Whitney Jr.
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