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Brown Bess
Land Pattern Musket
Description
The British Army's standard flintlock musket for more than a century. It symbolises the line infantry of its age.
Historical use
- American Revolutionary War
- Napoleonic Wars
Technical data
- Year
- 1722
- Service
- 1722–1838
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Maker
- Board of Ordnance
- Type
- Musket
- Mechanism
- Flintlock
- Calibre
- .75 (19 mm)
- Weight
- 4.7 kg
- Length
- 1,580 mm
- Barrel
- 1,170 mm
- Rate of fire
- 3 rds/min
Source: Wikidata Q269602
