This isn’t just a random field this is American ground that keeps coughing up musket balls like it remembers the violence. We start getting hit after hit, and the pattern doesn’t make sense unless ...

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Local police say Dyllon Redfern, 24, brandished a derringer from the 19th century after being asked for his ID The single-shot, percussion-style pistols known as derringers have almost certainly not ...

Archaeologists found the battlefield on private land a few miles away from Fort Ligonier in Pennsylvania. Jeff Kubina via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Three decades before his election as the ...

From British muskets to today’s M27 IAR, weaponry has advanced while preserving the Marine ethos. “Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman.” That saying has been an unofficial motto of the ...

There are many like it — 18, in fact. A new scrolling feature posted on the Marine Corps website walks through a vital string of identity to the Corps: a history of every rifle model that any Marine ...

A simple twist changed warfare forever. The socket bayonet turned muskets into brutal close-combat weapons—and it didn’t slow anyone down. Melania Trump's visa questioned in congressional hearing ...

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, ...

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 assassination in ...

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