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

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 ...

It may have been the mispronunciation of two foreign words. The Dutch word for gun barrel is “buss” while the German for gun is “Buchse.” It could have been a simple case of poetic alliteration. In ...

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. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays ...

The small arms of the American Army (not including pistols carried by officers) can be divided into four categories: British “Brown Bess” muskets, French Charleville muskets, American-made “Committee ...

Randi Shaw with the 1st North Carolina Regiment holds the iconic Brown Bess musket in camp. Shaw came up from New Bern for the Great Bridge battle re-enactment. Bob Ruegsegger/freelance.

The Land Pattern musket, known as the Brown Bess, was the British service arm from 1722 to 1838, when percussion muskets replaced it. It was .75 caliber and was used by both sides during the ...

The British Land Pattern Musket – more commonly known as “Brown Bess,” a nickname of unknown origin – was the most commonly used firearm in the American Revolution.

The common Brown Bess musket had been the mainstay of English forces since the first quarter of the 18th Century. Since the time of the French and Indian Wars (1756-1763) it had also been the more ...