musket
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A family tree hangs in the boardroom and some of the company’s oldest weapons, including a musket from 1830, are displayed in an archive of more than 1,500 pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
I recently discovered that if you walk around New York City while carrying an 18th-century musket, you get a lot of questions.
From Slate • May 8, 2024
For decades speculation has been rife about whether the pillars do actually bear the scars of the musket balls from nearly two hundred years ago.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2023
Would there be any musket balls, messages from students, or clues to historical mysteries?
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023
‘They’ve caught one of their own men selling a musket to a farmer.’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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