Note their M1903 rifles and newly-issued M1911 pistols. Bluejackets engage Mexican snipers with an M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun. Note the man in the foreground with an M1911 pistol.

In all, when the Mexican forces burst through the walls of the Alamo, they found 21 cannons of varying sizes and shapes, three of which had never even been fired.

After the Revolution, Connecticut gunmaker Simeon North won a contract to manufacture a new pistol. Based on French pistols of the period, North's new weapon was smaller than the earlier 1775 ...

My InsiderBy November 2019, Sig Sauer had delivered well over 100,000 of the new sidearms. Deliveries reached 200,000 in November 2020 — the first month the pistols were sent to all military ...

However, one image that stayed with me was that of Emiliano Zapata, who led the men and women (soldaderas) from the province of Morelos to fight in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. And ...

Pershing’s “Buffalo” soldiers of the 10th Cavalry of about 100 men, led by Captain Charles T. Boyd, encountered a Mexican force of 400 under the command of Captain Felix Gómez.