The Queen Anne was still in production, post-American Revolution, until the 1780s before gradually falling out of use in the nineteenth century. It is thought that they came into the possession of the Revolutionaries during the Siege of Boston (April 1775 to March 1776) after the population in the town took up arms against the British who controlled the town. Outside of England, a significant number of Queen Anne pistols are thought to have been used by Revolutionary forces during the American Revolution. The Queen Anne was used throughout the expanding English (later British) Empire, although the actual number manufactured, or indeed where they were manufactured, is unclear.
Queen Anne Pistols are thought to have first been produced in 1660, although they did not become popular until the early 1700s during the reign of Queen Anne I of Great Britain. Although the name Queen Anne could apply to any pistol built during the reign of Anne as Queen of England (1702-14), the term Queen Anne Pistol applied to any pistol with screw on barrel.
The Queen Anne pistol was a style of flintlock pistol used in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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