Brown Bess Musket

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Illustration

Harrison W. Mark
by Missouri History Museum
published on 09 April 2024
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A Short Land Pattern Musket, nicknamed 'Brown Bess', the standard weapon of an infantrymen in the British army during the 18th and early 19th centuries, c. 1773.

Missouri History Museum, St. Louis.

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Museum, M. H. (2024, April 09). Brown Bess Musket. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18787/brown-bess-musket/

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