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 ...

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 metal parts of this musket were ...

At the beginning of the American Revolution, long before there were weapons of mass destruction, American Patriots faced British soldiers with relatively simple agents of personal destruction. When ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — I recently visited Chesapeake to check out a piece of local history at the Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Museum. "The artifact in question is known as a Brown Bess musket, ...

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” ...