DETROIT ARSENAL, Mich. -- In 1776 Gen. George Washington issued an order to select men for his personal guard called the Commander-in-Chief's Guard, arming them with Brown Bess muskets. Today the Army ...

At the beginning of the American Revolution, long before there were weapons of mass destruction, American Patriots faced British soldiers with relatively simple agents of personal destruction. When ...

A team of experts put an 18th-century musket to the test — revealing how deadly it really was. At Fort Ticonderoga, a centuries-old weapon is put through a modern test. Using ballistic gel, a ...

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The British made flintlock, .71 caliber smooth bore design. British Short Land Pattern musket Brown Bess is the nickname of the British Short Land Pattern musket. It was the standard arm of the ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — I recently visited Chesapeake to check out a piece of local history at the Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Museum. "The artifact in question is known as a Brown Bess musket, ...

Researchers say there's a very good chance that the only documented firearm left from the Battle of San Jacinto was also used in the Battle of the Alamo. James Mitchell of Freedom Documents Fun, Inc.

The musket trade has begun at the Kerikeri Mission Station. Beautifully made non-firing replicas of the original ‘Brown Bess’ musket – which were traded between ship merchants in the Bay of Islands ...

The Brown Bess Flintlock Musket came in 3 sizes - Long Land pattern 1720 - 1760, Short land 1760 - 1790 and India Pattern 1790 - 1815. The barrel lengths were 46" 42" and 39" respectively. They were ...

Researchers say there's a very good chance that the only documented firearm left from the Battle of San Jacinto was also used in the Battle of the Alamo. James Mitchell of Freedom Documents Fun, Inc.