Musket Research Paper

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The colonists (underdogs) were able to win the Revolutionary War due to their great weaponry and military, and as a result, they shocked the British and win their freedom.
During the Colonial Times, the flintlock musket was one of the most commonly used guns utilized by both sides of the Revolutionary war. It is called the flintlock musket because when you pull the trigger it causes a flint to strike a spark, and fire the bullet up to about seventy yards. Bayonets could also be fixed to the end of the flintlock. Another common musket was called the British Brown Bess. It was about five feet long, weighed ten pounds, and fired a one-ounce lead ball. The soldiers that used the Flintlock or Brown Bess Musket carried around a pick and a brush to clean residue that clogged the touch hole (where the spark ignites the charge). Soldiers also carried paper cartridges that held the powder and a lead ball, a leather cartridge box for their ammunition, and lastly a powder horn which held gunpowder. To load either of the muskets you would tear off a part of the cartridge and pour the powder into the barrel. Then you push all of the powder down the barrel with a steel …show more content…
There are many other uses for tomahawks and hatchets like cutting firewood, throwing up bush wood barricades, driving tent pegs into the ground, and even smoking. This tomahawk that was used for smoking is called the pipe Tomahawk. It has a sharp cutting edge on one side and a pipe on the other where you could smoke tobacco. Bayonets are sharp pointed blades that are around 17 inches long. One bayonet called the Socket Bayonet could be attached to a musket which then turned into a spear. It also had many other reasons to use it like as a candle holder, skewer for roasting meat, or a digging tool. Even though very few of the weapons have survived this period it played a major role in war and fights during the Colonial
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