IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This British musket was produced in ...

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LINCOLN — It’s a raw, gray, cold morning in the tall woods of Lincoln, and the British are coming. Dozens of them, clad in scarlet, carrying Brown Bess muskets, and running for cover wherever they can ...

Pitting the Brown Bess against the long rifle, testing the first military submarine, and more. Canon balls could tear through multiple ranks, going through a chest here, breaking a limb there, ...