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.

The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms ...

They were there to see the demonstration of a new type of flintlock musket designed by Honoré Blanc, a gunsmith from Avignon so despised by his fellow makers, that he had been holed away in the ...

Adams reportedly owned firearms, and like Washington had a set of flintlock muskets which he used in the American Revolution according to reports and the biography John Adams by David McCullough.

In France, though, this conversion project extended the life of many former flintlock muskets that had already been updated to percussion priming. This unique, long-lived military arm was known ...

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The Corps of Discovery, under Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, issued the first examples of the Model 1803 Harper ...

In Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, players will find themselves navigating a wide terrain and exploring various locations in townships or the wilderness. Many of these locations are often crawling ...

The problem was that clocks in the 1700s were drastically affected by rough conditions at sea and tended to become inaccurate after short periods of sailing. If a sailor from the 18th Century were ...

Flax and timber merchants based in Sydney began trading in the early 1800s with Māori in the Bay of Islands, with the exchange of goods being the European musket. The musket, a long-barrelled ...

J.S. Bach came from a family of successful musicians and was one of the most prominent composers of the Baroque period, writing six concertos for the noblemen of Brandenburg. Bach took on the work ...

The rifle that was found in Ryan Wesley Routh’s alleged sniper’s nest just outside Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach on Sept. 15. Photos were included in a detention memo filed ...