by Jim Mullins. Softbound, 185 pages, 11" x 8-1/2". Britain encountered many problems while arming their American colonial soldiers. They often requested that they be sent older, lighter, cheaper guns, to be considered "of sorts for provincials". The author documents this story using actual quotes from correspondence of British and American officers and political leaders. Full color photographs of the fine guns in the Colonial Williamsburg collection and several private collections are arranged in landscape format, to best display these fine antique guns, bags, horns, swords and accoutrements.