CONCORD, Mass. - Archeologists with the National Park Service made a remarkable discovery after finding musket balls fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War. An examination of ...

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 ...

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BOSTON (WCVB) – A historic discovery in Massachusetts has been unearthed. Musket balls fired during the battle featuring “the shot heard around the world” have been recovered. Boston is a town steeped ...

Revolutionary War weapons were built for a slower and more brutal kind of combat. Soldiers fired, reloaded, marched in tight ...

The 1800s were a turning point in the history of firearms. As empires expanded and revolutions sparked around the globe, technological advancements in weaponry played a critical role in shaping ...

Jarrad Fuoss was digging in the cold ground of a Massachusetts park in winter 2023, not expecting he or his fellow archaeologists would find anything. Then he heard someone yell: “You’re never going ...

This video traces the dramatic transformation of military technology from the age of smoothbore muskets to the dawn of modern machine guns. Covering the years 1837 to 1901, it highlights the ...

HALIFAX, N.C. (AP) — With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around ...

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — 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 ...