A team of experts put an 18th-century musket to the test — revealing how deadly it really was. At Fort Ticonderoga, a centuries-old weapon is put through a modern test. Using ballistic gel, a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The British Short Land Pattern Musket ...

Kevin Hicks from The History Squad demonstrates how to fire a matchlock musket at English Heritage's Bolsover Castle.

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Volunteers at Bannockburn House in Scotland discovered a musket ball hole in a wall that dates to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

CONCORD – Archaeologists in Concord, Massachusetts found five musket balls they say were fired on April 19, 1775 at Minute Man National Historic Park during the event famously known as "The Shot Heard ...

After going missing for more than 50 years, a firearm dating back to the Revolutionary War has been recovered and donated to a Philadelphia museum, the FBI says. The .78-caliber musket, which was ...

At Fort Ticonderoga, a centuries-old weapon is put through a modern test. Using ballistic gel, a slow-motion camera and a chronograph, experts investigate the true power of the British “Brown Bess” ...

Archaeologists recently discovered five musket balls at Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts and traced them back to the event marked in history as “the Shot Heard ’Round the World,” ...