PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As Philadelphia gets ready to celebrate America's birthday, a museum in Old City is welcoming a rediscovered musket that was used during the American Revolutionary War. Monday was ...
A ‘hello' to arms: Stolen musket returned, joins collection at the Museum of the American Revolution
That's what Scott Stephenson, the president and CEO of Philadelphia's Museum of the American Revolution, whispered as a rare musket was brought into his view on Monday morning. His remark was made ...
Archaeologists working at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts, unearthed a piece of American history tied to the “shot heard round the world.” Five musket balls were ...
Museum curator Nikki Walsh holds up two Revolutionary War musket balls, which are believed to have been fired at the British by colonial militia men, at Minute Man National Historical Park, Monday, ...
Archaeologists found a handful of musket balls near a famed Revolutionary War bridge in Massachusetts — and they were likely fired by a colonial militia during a skirmish that later inspired the ...
The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s has revived tales of fighting at the start of the Revolutionary War. By Christine Hauser Early last year, archaeologists discovered five round objects while ...
FROM CONCORD. ARE IN A TOWN STEEPED IN TRADITION, WHERE REENACTMENTS BRING HISTORY TO LIFE. ARCHEOLOGISTS JUST UNEARTH LIVING ARCHIVES NOT SEEN IN 250 YEARS. REALLY. WE’RE LOOKING AT A FEW SECONDS, ...
Jarrad Fuoss was digging in the cold ground of a Massachusetts park in winter 2023, not expecting he or his fellow archaeologists would find anything. Then he heard someone yell: “You’re never going ...
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 ...
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- It was November of 1776 and for Gen. George Washington and his Continental Army the prospects of establishing a new country apart from British rule was looking bleak. After ...
This story, “Guns of the American Revolution,” appeared in the July 1976 issue of Outdoor Life. “This province has raised 1,000 riflemen, the worst of whom will put a ball through a man’s head at the ...
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