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Cspan3, American History tv. Patrick thank you, steve. let me begin with the origin of the National Rifle association. How did the organization come about and why . Patrick it came about during the civil war. There was poor marksmanship, so two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. Facilitate, build, and grow longrange rifle ranges , and the other was to assist the state National Guards in marksmanship. The nra initially, just so you know, was kind of working to get appropriations from the government and they started off with one organization. They grew to 1...

On the frontier of new york in the mohawk valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named william johnson, not a lot of contemporary American Students of history know much about him, but he was a very interesting figure in the 18th century. An irish immigrant, settled on the mohawk frontier of upstate new york in 1740, and became very friendly with mohawk indians, who were his neighbors. Ultimately, grained a great deal of influence among them and was appointed by the British Crown to serve as the agent to the iroquois nation. This painter in the early 20th century wanted to depic...

Become so divisive. On a warm welcome to you im on that that shima. A push towards a full ceasefire in libya one leaders gathered in berlin at the weekend for a peace conference they agreed to stop interfering in libya and respect a u. N. Weapons in battle but after 9 years a war the leaders of libyas 2 main rival factions are still refusing to meet face to face. The mighty gathered in berlin on a sunday afternoon world powers united in a mission of hope german chancellor Angela Merkel invited representatives of more than 10 countries to press for a solution to the long running conflict in lib...

Pet charles is all former marine and Senior Historian for the u. S. Airport and the author of the book armed in america. Patrick charles. Thank you for being with us on cspan. Charles thank you, steve. Let me begin with the origin of the National Rifle association. How did it come about and why . It came back during the civil war. Two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. One was to facilitate and grow longrange rifle ranges and the other was to assist the state National Guards in marksmanship. The nra initially, just so you know, was kind of working to get ...

To. A very warm welcome to you watching r. T. International with me. Now the u. K. Anti doping agency has said its refusing to provide the global doping watchdog wada with key samples from british runners a request for the materials came as part of an ongoing drugs investigation into the nike oregon projects earlier neil harvey discussed the issue with. Talking about a 4 time olympic gold champion a 6 time World Champion in athletics a runner from Great Britain and hes one of the biggest athletes of the modern generation now there has been speculation for quite some time that such a Success St...