be a major in the Partisan Corps, and after the Revolution, went to France, where he was one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati in that country. This was all I knew, at the time, of the romantic history of this young officer. A year or so after the publication of that paper, I received

and improve on the type of rifle they knew in their fatherland. The result was the Long Rifle, later known as the Kentucky rifle. This long rifle soon became famous and was credited with winning the French and Indian War, and the War of the Revolution. So important had the manufacture of the Kentucky