{"id":79618,"date":"2024-11-04T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=79618"},"modified":"2024-11-04T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:34:45","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-november-4-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/04\/on-this-day-in-history-november-4-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History, November 4, 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Built over 150 years ago, the first machine gun is still influential<\/a><\/h1>\n

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American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling<\/em> patents the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.<\/h2>\n

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“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine gun which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease would be greatly diminished.”\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n

-R.J. Gatling (1862)<\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Built over 150 years ago, the first machine gun is still influential   American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.   “It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine gun which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6199,475,6050,8448,5064,478,479,9995],"tags":[1880,13838,18180,14061,9606,6149],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79621,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79618\/revisions\/79621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}