This gun was carried by John Munroe as he joined other colonial militiamen in facing down British troops on Lexington Green.

On April 19, 1775, hundreds of British soldiers marched into Lexington and Concord to seize an arms cache of gun and powder stockpiled from the colonists in Massachusetts. What began as a ...

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” musket.