In 1866, the French army adopted an excellent bolt ... like the one seen here, from flintlock muskets that were later (around 1840) altered to cap and ball. Tabatières were usually issued to ...

A French military flintlock pistol, the Mòdele 1763 was ... British troops received a shipment of more 1,000 Pattern 1776 rifles that same year. The guns were meant to even the playing field ...

Lexington History Museums curator Jesse Hilton recently showed off a collection of historic items, including this flintlock musket. It belonged to John ... re getting are older things — until the ...

They were there to see the demonstration of a new type of flintlock musket designed by Honoré ... with the insouciance for which the French are famous, he tossed their component parts into ...

The flintlock musket imposed its iron logic on training ... and many clashes between French columns and British lines came when the French collided with a line that had hitherto been out of ...

The early long rifles used a flintlock ignition system, developed by the seventeenth century French; caplocks came along around 1820. Flintlocks were the dominant rifle until 1830, when according ...

His world of artistic restoration echoes with ancient gunfire and evokes long-gone smoke clouds from 5 1/2-foot-long muskets ... the Revolutionary War or the French and Indian War, and he will ...

The flintlock musket imposed its iron logic on training ... and many clashes between French columns and British lines came when the French collided with a line that had hitherto been out of ...

Compare this with the achievement of the flintlock musket only a century before ... not won by standing on the defensive and, like its French allies and German opponents, the British infantry ...