8/27/2023 0 Comments Burnside carbine serial numbers![]() ![]() Bristol Firearms produced locks and other parts for the firearms trade and this was to keep the Company solvent while Burnside perfected his carbine design. Burnside was fortunate in being able to employ Massachusetts gunsmith George P Foster to assist him in the early stages of his company’s development. A fire destroyed the premises in late 1853 and he used the insurance settlement to establish the Bristol Firearm Co in 1854. Using this design Burnside established his fist company, Burnside and Bishop, in 1853. ![]() This was probably for the purpose of satisfying the ‘working model’ requirement of the U.S. His last Military posting was at Fort Adams, in Newport, Rhode Island.ĭuring this period Burnside requested permission to have the Springfield Armoury make up a model of a firearm of his design. He was posted as a Lieutenant of Artillery to Mexico and went on to serve with the Artillery in the new territories in the South Western US where he was wounded in a skirmish with the Apache Indians in 1849. Ambrose Everett Burnside was born in 1824 and graduated from the U.S Military Academy in 1847. ![]()
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