Five musket balls fired by colonial militiamen during one of the first battles of the American Revolution have been unearthed ...
Early matchlock guns are extremely rare. The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets used by militia in Colonial America. 1498 - Rifling principle is discovered.
National Park Service archeologists working at a Revolutionary War battle site in Concord, Massachusetts, recently unearthed ...