American Rifleman

Fire a Brown Bess at Colonial Williamsburg's Musket Range

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The Virginian-Pilot

Living history: The role of ‘Brown Bess’ in the British defeat at the Battle of Great Bridge

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 ...
American Rifleman

American Muskets Of The Revolution

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WTKR

How a Brown Bess musket, now housed in a Chesapeake museum, played a role in the Revolutionary War

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, ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Muskets put bang into Colonial history

WILLIAMSBURG — Starting March 19, Colonial Williamsburg guests can get their hands on history in a new and exciting way — firing replicas of two 18th-century firearms. But the experience won’t come ...