Armaments and Innovations - The U. S. Navy's Early Machine Guns
By Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U. S. Navy (Retired), with Gary M. Gibson
When General George Washington retreated from New York in the fall of 1776, young Joseph G. Chambers abandoned his studies at Princeton and escaped ahead of the invading British to join his father’s New Jersey militia regiment. He subsequently participated in the battles at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. Chambers’ Revolutionary War experiences left him with deep impressions concerning weapons of war, and after becoming an inventor, he would conceive some of the early Navy’s most innovative and unusual guns.
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