Paper cartridges contained the main propellant charge, but, from 1855 on, the spherical musket ball was replaced by the Delvigne-Minié hollow-base conical projectile later refined by James Burton ...

Even when they’re working as designed, loading a musket is a slow and complicated process. Bohy demonstrated all the steps in a new PBS NOVA documentary called “Revolutionary War Weapons,” starting ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the 6th Middlesex County Regiment were practicing Sunday ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Archaeologists found a handful of musket balls near a famed Revolutionary War bridge in Massachusetts — and they were likely fired by a colonial militia during a skirmish that later inspired the ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...

Musket balls that started the American Revolution sat buried. Until now. “The last time somebody touched it they were shoving it down the muzzle of a musket on April 19, 1775,” a park ranger ...

Two thick wooden beams inside a Massachusetts museum were pierced over the weekend by a musket ball fired from an antique weapon.Members of the Sixth Middlesex County Regiment were practicing ...