Samuel Colt new revolver had a stationary trigger and was in a larger caliber. Colt submitted his single prototype to the War Department as a "Holster revolver". Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers had acquired some of the first Colt revolvers produced during the Seminole War and saw first-hand their effective use as his 15-man unit defeated a larger force of 70 Comanche in Texas. Walker wanted to order Colt revolvers for use by the Rangers in the Mexican–American War, and traveled to New York City in search of Colt. He met Colt in a gunsmith's shop on January 4, 1847,
Praise to the Living God Praise to the Living God "Praise to the Living God" is an American Judeo-Christian hymn written in 1884 by Max Landsburg and Newton Mann. It was revised in 1910 by William C. Gannett. Landsburg was a Jewish rabbi of German origin in Rochester, New York. In 1884, he approached Mann, a Unitarian minister, for assistance in adapting the British Methodist hymn "The God of Abraham Praise", itself a loose and Christianized translation of the Jewish hymn "Yigdal", into a more accurate and less Christianized translation of "Yigdal" for interfaith use. Mann wrote "Praise to the Living God" as a version