musket: Quick Facts

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Learn about the regimented fighting and muskets used on both sides in the American Revolutionary War

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Modèle 1777 musket Long Land Model 1842 musket Short Land musket small arm machine gun Ghost gun rifle pistol shotgun carbine harquebus handgun blunderbuss

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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney

American inventor and manufacturer

James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)

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