hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first major battle in the Revolutionary War.

The CMH kiosk exhibit will focus on the Army campaigns of the Revolutionary War and life of the Continental ... period and a “Brown Bess” flintlock musket, will be available for participants ...

"Fire, Smoke & Muskets: Gloucester 1781" boasts cannon ... African American History, and the Revolutionary War," wrote a spokesperson. "The Historic Gloucester Courtcircle and surrounding areas ...

In a mere two months, soldiers learned how to load and fire a musket quicker and more efficiently, and were introduced to the bayonet, allowing them to engage more successfully when in close combat ...

The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution will be celebrated in several communities that received funding from a state ...

MARBLEHEAD — The public got to experience Revolutionary War Marblehead this past weekend ... reenactors prepared for wartime with drills, musket ball making, musket cleaning and repair.

A Wapiti, Wyoming, man is trying to overturn the nation's general ban on machine guns, and on Friday took his case to the ...

Individually and collectively, the minute men of Massachusetts played important roles in the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The life ... of men who fired their muskets, then dropped back ...

Two American Revolutionary soldiers were honored recently in a service, held by the Tennessee Society of the Sons of the ...

DANVERS — Honoring three veterans from the Revolutionary War, the local and state branches ... American Revolution color guard there to do a musket salute to call to order the program," Kern ...