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This August, Shrewsbury Castle’s Soldiers of Shropshire Museum is ramping up their hands-on weapons demonstrations, running ...
Brown Bess weighed 10 pounds was 60 inches long with a 42- or 46-inch smooth bore barrel and a walnut stock. Soldiers generally carried nine to 12 rounds in a belly cartridge box.
The origins of “Bess” are much more varied. Some believe it was a reference to Queen Elizabeth I, though she had been dead more than 100 years before the rifle was standard issue. Some feel it was an ...
As the British Empire became more global, the Brown Bess continued to see use around the world. At the same time, the technical advances of the Industrial Age ushered in new methods of production ...
A look at the Revolutionary War era Brown Bess musket and it's role in the Battle of Great Bridge. It's now kept in the Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Museum.