The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets used by militia in Colonial America. 1498 ... In the second half of the 18th century, musket design branched out.

From the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries, the United States military was outfitted with several models of the Springfield U.S. musket. These muskets borrowed many of the design elements of the ...

In the 1850s, British designer William Pritchett developed a new design for a rifled musket using a primer-based ignition source, three rifle groves in the 39" barrel, and a Minie-ball style ...

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 ...

Archaeologists found musket balls from the Revoluntary War at the North Bridge in Concord, site of the skirmish that inspired the phrase, "The Shot Heard Round the World." ...

The musket of American colonist Private John Simpson is going up for auction. Simpson fired the first shot of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill.

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 ...

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. 1509 - Invention of wheel lock (rose lock). ..