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I’ve had more than a few requests for this Head to Head, so I figured it was high time to pit two of the early 20th century’s ...
July is the month we celebrate our nation’s independence. With that in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to learn ...
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 ...
First up, the musket, with the .69-caliber ball. (fires) Pulling the trigger instantly sets off a chain reaction in the flintlock mechanism. (musket fires) A stone flint strikes a steel hammer.
To load and fire the flintlock musket the soldier had to carry out a set sequence of movements. First, he bit one end off a paper cartridge containing powder and musket-ball.
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 ...
Musket Balls Found in Massachusetts Recall ‘Shot Heard Round the World’ The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s has revived tales of fighting at the start of the Revolutionary War.
The musket balls range in size, dating back almost 250 years, and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War.
Nearly 250 years ago, 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 ...
The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord. Early analysis of the balls — gray ...