Brown Bess: The Land Pattern Musket That Built an Empire

Brown Bess: The Land Pattern Musket That Built an Empire

For the better part of 130 years, the Brown Bess was the British Army's answer to the question of how to arm an empire. A muzzle-loading, smoothbore, .75-caliber flintlock musket, it served in one form or another from 1722 until the mid-nineteenth ce