hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first major battle in the Revolutionary War.

The musket ball which killed Admiral Lord Nelson is to go on on display in his home county of Norfolk for the first time. The 15mm lead ball is mounted in a hinged sliver casket with remnants of ...

This cannon-ball ... Civil War the castle became a Royalist stronghold. Guernsey itself, however, supported the Parliamentarians. The island and the castle exchanged cannon and musket fire for ...

The archaeological team opened three trenches at the site on the headland English Civil War musket balls, Roman pottery and items from the 2nd Century AD are among objects unearthed during a rare ...

human toe bones and 17th Century artefacts will be sold at auction Human toe bones and a cannon ball found in a vegetable patch and believed to have been used in the English Civil War are set to ...