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A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling Guns in. 30 Army made by Colt's Arms Company was formed into a separate detachment led by Lt. John " Gatling Gun " Parker.
The earliest issues lead up to the events seen in " The Cage ", which was retold from Yeoman Colt's point of view.
His first attempt at manufacturing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, occurred during an economic crisis in the US leading to poor sales, and was further hampered by Colt's mismanagement and reckless spending.
Colt's great contribution was to the use of interchangeable parts.
The company was briefly saved by the war against the Seminoles in Florida which provided the first sale of Colt's revolvers and his new revolving muskets.
Morse used the battery from one of Colt's mines to transmit a telegraph message from Manhattan to Governors Island when his own battery was too weak to send the signal.
" Lt. Bedley McDonald, who served under Walker when Walker was killed in Mexico, stated that 30 Rangers used Colt's revolvers to keep 500 Mexicans in check.
However, Colt's lawyers doubted that this suit would have been successful and the case was resolved with a settlement of $ 15, 000.
By telling each nation that the others were buying Colt's pistols, Colt was able to get large orders from many countries who feared falling behind in the arms race.
A key element to Colt's success was vigorous protection of his patent rights.
Thus, Colt's factory was the first to make use of the concept known as the assembly line.
On a tour of the factory, Charles Dickens was so impressed with the facilities that he recorded his favorable comments of Colt's revolvers in an 1852 edition of Household Words.
One of Colt's biggest acts of self-promotion was the payment to the publishers of United States Magazine $ 1, 120 ($ 61, 439 by 1999 standards ) to run a 29-page fully illustrated story showing the inner workings of his factory.
At the time of his death, Colt's estate, which he left to his wife and three-year-old son Caldwell Hart Colt, was estimated to be valued at around $ 15 million ($ 350 million by 2009 standards ).
The only other person mentioned in Colt's will was Samuel Caldwell Colt, the son of his brother, John.
Colt historian William Edwards wrote that Samuel Colt had married Caroline Henshaw ( who later married his brother, John ) in Scotland in 1838 and that the son she bore later was Samuel Colt's and not his brother John's.
In a 1953 biography about Samuel Colt based largely on family letters, Edwards wrote that John Colt's marriage to Caroline in 1841 was a way to legitimize her unborn son as the real father, Samuel Colt, felt she was not fit to be the wife of an industrialist and divorce was a social stigma at the time.
Historians such as Edwards and Harold Schechter have said this was the elder Colt's way of letting the world know that the boy was his own son without directly saying so.
The court also ruled that " M4 " was now a generic name, and that Colt's trademark should be revoked.
Barrymore's marriage to Colt was a precarious one from the start, with Barrymore filing divorce papers as early in the marriage as 1911, much to Colt's surprise, and later recanted by Barrymore as a misunderstanding by the press.

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