This is every rifle the Marine Corps has issued to Marines in the service's 250-year history, from muskets to M4s.

Nearly 250 years ago, militiamen fired a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first major Revolutionary War battles.

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The rifle carried by the US Marine Corps has evolved significantly, and it has come a long way from the Brown Bess and Charleville muskets used 250 years ago, but the role of those carrying it hasn’t ...

JD Vance says it’s time to ‘load the muskets’ in foreword on new Project 2025 book Amazon’s listing of the book, Dawn’s Early Light, describes it as outlining ‘a peaceful Second ...

The latest evidence of a firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord.

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Musket Balls Found in Massachusetts Recall ‘Shot Heard Round the World’ The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s has revived tales of fighting at the start of the Revolutionary War.

National Park Service Five musket balls fired by colonial militiamen during one of the first battles of the American Revolution have been unearthed in Concord, Massachusetts.

Archeologists with the National Park Service say they have found musket balls that date back nearly 250 years and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War.