Sam Walker's Walker:

[daboyleroy]

One of those casualties on the Rangers’ side was Samuel Walker (pictured), gravely injured but who would survive. Walker came away with not just the unpleasant memory of what it felt like to be pierced by a 14-foot lance but also with the knowledge of what superior firepower could provide a vastly outnumbered group.
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He wanted them shipped directly to him because if the government decided to obstinately go in another direction, he was willing to buy them all for himself. “With improvements,” he said, “I think they can be rendered the most perfect weapons in the world for light mounted troops.” With this contract, Samuel Colt was able to revive his defunct firearms manufacturing business and cement his legacy as America’s gunmaker and a household name.

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As Paul H. would say “Rest of the story” at:

https://www.americanrifleman.org/ar...alkers-walker-cimarron-firearms-reproduction/

 

[rodwha]

I’m at a loss for the part stating Walker survived the lance attack. Everything I had seen stated he died from it that day. Wiki states he was killed that day by a shotgun. Regardless he did not survive unless this lance attack is from another engagement.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Sam had his men turn their guns on the Mexicans and he used his Walkers to shoot the fuzes to discharge the cannons.

Hell of a man.

 

[daboyleroy]

I’m at a loss for the part stating Walker survived the lance attack. Everything I had seen stated he died from it that day. Wiki states he was killed that day by a shotgun. Regardless he did not survive unless this lance attack is from another engagement.

I had to reread it myself.
I understood the word casualty to be wounded. It was not a fatal injury or a fatality, but was as you could imagine, a severe wound since it was from the point of a 14 ‘ lance.

Below is from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hamilton_Walker

Walker was killed on October 9, 1847, at Huamantla, in Tlaxcala, while leading his troops in the Battle of Huamantla during the Mexican–American War. He was struck down by a shotgun (escopeta) fired from a balcony, although popular legend claim he was killed by a lance.

 

[rodwha]

So was he pierced at in another battle to make it on to the other? My understanding was the battle he was killed in was his first with his new weapons he helped design.

This statement certainly claims he lived another day, and with those new pistols:

“One of those casualties on the Rangers’ side was Samuel Walker (pictured), gravely injured but who would survive. Walker came away with not just the unpleasant memory of what it felt like to be pierced by a 14-foot lance but also with the knowledge of what superior firepower could provide a vastly outnumbered group.”