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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Gun Through Time stands out not just in its consideration of such a taboo topic, but also in its dynamic structure and style. The stage design itself is a fundamental detail in communicating the ...

This story, “Guns of the American Revolution,” appeared in the July 1976 issue of Outdoor Life. “This province has raised 1,000 riflemen, the worst of whom will put a ball through a man’s head at the ...

As the saying goes, the sun never set on the British Empire. And from the cool, damp British Isles was built the largest empire by landmass the world had ever known. The First British Empire ...

Explore key military technologies in the American colonies’ fight for freedom. How did a ragtag army defeat the most powerful army in the world to win American independence? Discover the key military ...

As the saying goes, the sun never set on the British Empire. And from the cool, damp British Isles was built the largest empire by landmass the world had ever known. The First British Empire ...