It’s less than two months until the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, one of the most important battles of the ...

It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

John Pitcairn is pictured riding a white horse near the center of the image, next to a line of British light infantrymen with blackpowder smoke erupting from the barrels of their muskets.

Early matchlock guns are extremely rare. 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.

If seeing a musket turn a nice, ripe honeydew into fruit salad at 60 yards is your idea of fun, “Revolutionary War Weapons” may not be the show for you: What accomplishes the melon assassinati ...

Using ballistic gel, a slow-motion camera and a chronograph, experts investigate the true power of the British “Brown Bess” musket. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle ...

The five musket balls were found near the Concord River in Massachusetts, just under 20 miles northwest of Boston. National Park Service Five musket balls fired by colonial militiamen during one ...

The musket balls had “slight deformations” that indicated they had in fact been fired — a smooth line, or “banding,” around each ball that is caused by friction in the gun barrel when ...

Earlier in the morning, a dawn salute was held where muskets and cannons were fired. Saturday's ceremony took part midway through a parade, marking the 250 years since the battle. The Concord ...

What we do know is someone fired a musket. A musket cracked through the early morning silence of April 19, 1775. When the smoke cleared, eight American militiamen were dead, and the world would ...