After a deadly confrontation between British soldiers and Colonial rebels in Lexington in the early morning of April 19, 1775, the Redcoats advanced to Concord where they engaged in a gunfight with ...

Update 10/24: The musket sold at auction for $492,000. It's one of the most infamous — and disputed — quotes of the American Revolution: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." Colonists ...

After going missing for more than 50 years, a firearm dating back to the Revolutionary War has been recovered and donated to a Philadelphia museum, the FBI says. The .78-caliber musket, which was ...

Musket balls that have been buried in soil for hundreds of years can be converted into a key ingredient for next-generation ...

The five musket balls were found near the Concord River in Massachusetts, just under 20 miles northwest of Boston. National Park Service Five musket balls fired by colonial militiamen during one of ...

Amateur archaeologists in Scotland have discovered a cache of musket balls and other artifacts connected to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which attempted to restore the Stuart dynasty to Britain’s ...

Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering the ground with toxic materials. Today, a team of scientists in Germany has scavenged a pile of this deeply ...

The proportion of musketeers to pikemen grew during the 17th century, but it was not until 1705 that the British army abandoned the pike altogether. It was cumbersome, and the invention of the socket ...