One of the most important military arms ever made, the French "Charleville" musket saw use in the American Revolution and ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As Philadelphia gets ready to celebrate America's birthday, a museum in Old City is welcoming a rediscovered musket that was used during the American Revolutionary War. Monday was ...

Archaeologists working at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts, unearthed a piece of American history tied to the "shot heard round the world." Five musket balls were ...

CONCORD — These shots may have been among those "heard round the world," but their remnants weren't found for nearly 250 years. Five musket balls dating back to the start of the Revolutionary War were ...

That's what Scott Stephenson, the president and CEO of Philadelphia's Museum of the American Revolution, whispered as a rare musket was brought into his view on Monday morning. His remark was made ...

CONCORD – Archaeologists in Concord, Massachusetts found five musket balls they say were fired on April 19, 1775 at Minute Man National Historic Park during the event famously known as "The Shot Heard ...

Jarrad Fuoss was digging in the cold ground of a Massachusetts park in winter 2023, not expecting he or his fellow archaeologists would find anything. Then he heard someone yell: “You’re never going ...

This story, “Guns of the American Revolution,” appeared in the July 1976 issue of Outdoor Life. “This province has raised 1,000 riflemen, the worst of whom will put a ball through a man’s head at the ...

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 ...