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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Benjamin Tyler Henry
Benjamin Tyler Henry (March 22, 1821–June 8, 1898) was an American gunsmith and manufacturer.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Electoral College (United States)
The United States Electoral College is the mechanism established by the United States Constitution for the election of the president and vice president of the United States by small groups of appointed representatives, electors, from each state and the District of Columbia.
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Ephraim H. Hyde
Ephraim H. Hyde (June 1, 1812 – June 18, 1896) was an American politician who was the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1867 to 1869.
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Firearm
A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge.
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Henry rifle
The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action, breech-loading, tubular magazine rifle famed both for its use at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and being the basis for the iconic Winchester rifle of the American Wild West.
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List of lieutenant governors of Connecticut
The following is a list of deputy or lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut, from the Colonial period through present day.
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New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Repeating rifle
A repeating rifle, or repeater for short, is a single-barrel rifle capable of repeated discharges following a single ammunition reload, typically by having multiple cartridges stored in a magazine (within or attached to the gun) and then fed into the chamber by the bolt via either a manual or automatic mechanism, while the act of chambering the rifle typically also recocks the action for the following shot.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Roger Averill
Roger Averill (August 14, 1809 – December 9, 1883) was an American politician who was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
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San Jose, California
San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.
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Sarah Winchester
Sarah Lockwood Winchester (née Pardee; 1840 – September 5, 1922) was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester.
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Smith & Wesson
Smith & Wesson (S&W) is an American manufacturer of firearms, ammunition and restraints.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).
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U.S. Repeating Arms Company
The U.S. Repeating Arms Company.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Marshals Service
The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law-enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Volcanic Repeating Arms
The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company was a U.S. company formed in 1855 by partners Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson to develop Walter Hunt's Rocket Ball ammunition and lever action mechanism.
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William Wirt Winchester
William Wirt Winchester (June 22, 1837 – March 7, 1881) was the treasurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a position he held until his death in 1881.
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Winchester Mystery House
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearm magnate William Wirt Winchester.
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Winchester Repeating Arms Company
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American maker of repeating firearms, located in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Winchester rifle
Winchester rifle is a comprehensive term describing a series of lever-action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
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References
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