F.B.E. Beaumont is an English lieutenant royal engineers whos patent was used for the Beaumont-Adams revolvers.
It is a double-action percussion revolver and produces from 1862 to 1880. In england it was .442 caliber which
is 54 bore or 11,2 mm. His revolvers were in use in the British Army as of 1856 and were replaced in 1880 by
the Enflield MK I revolver.
Massachusetts Arms Company was licensed to manufacture about 19,000 revolvers in .36 caliber. 1,705 of them
were purchased by the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War. Massachusetts Arms Company made also
a pocket Beaumont-Adams in .32 caliber.
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