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2 days ago · Its lack of river transport, by cutting it off from maritime contacts important in the medieval period, impeded its development from a small manufacturing town to a large city until the late 18th century, when it became the leading nucleus of the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
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4 days ago · Concerns about the widespread availability and illicit trade of SALW and related ammunition have been raised over decades in various fora, including in numerous United Nations reports.
4 days ago · RUNNING GUNS tracks the small arms industry from glitzy trade shows to the 'killing fields' of Africa where planes loaded with arms arrive to fuel civil wars and horrifying militia attacks on civilian populations.
9 hours ago · He expressed interest in opening trade with the United States and bypassing English ports, and allowed an American agent to buy arms in Prussia. Frederick predicted American success, [187] and promised to recognize the United States and American diplomats once France did the same. [188]
2 days ago · The act established severe punishment against the international slave trade, although it did not address the issue domestically. [213] In Haiti, Jefferson's neutrality had allowed arms to enable the slave independence movement during its Revolution , and blocked attempts to assist Napoleon, who was defeated there in 1803. [214]
3 days ago · May 23, 2024, 11:46 PM ET (Wall Street Journal) Outgunned and Short on Shells: Inside a Ukrainian Front-Line Artillery Unit. artillery, in military science, crew-served big guns, howitzers, or mortars having a calibre greater than that of small arms, or infantry weapons.
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2 days ago · The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is a multilateral treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional weapons, which entered into force on December 24, 2014. Work on the treaty commenced in 2006 with negotiations for its content conducted at a global conference under the auspices of the United Nations from July 2–27, 2012, in New York ...
