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 ...

Update 10/24: The musket sold at auction for $492,000. It's one of the most infamous — and disputed — quotes of the American Revolution: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." Colonists ...

Men dressed as Minutemen fire salute on Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, in April 1975, marking the 200th anniversary of the "shot heard round the world" and the start of the Revolutionary ...

Archaeologists dig up five musket balls fired at British by colonial militia on 19 April 1775 in national park in Concord Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts ...

The proportion of musketeers to pikemen grew during the 17th century, but it was not until 1705 that the British army abandoned the pike altogether. It was cumbersome, and the invention of the socket ...

A superb imperial matchlock musket will be sold at Sotheby's in London in November with an estimated price of 1.5 million pounds ($1.85 million). This rare and exquisitely produced musket is the first ...

The American Revolution’s humble beginnings 250 years ago are reflected in a cut down, beat up, old musket — one that even experts recognize isn’t much to look at. “If that gun was on a table, ...