Brown Bess
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"Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. The musket design remained in use for over a hundred
A Short Land Pattern Musket
Firing mechanism of an India-pattern musket. Part of the original equipment of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment. One of 3,000 muskets ceded to the Duchy of Oldenburg by the British in 1814.
Potzdam Musket
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The Potzdam musket was the standard infantry weapon of the Royal Prussian Army from the 18th century until the military reforms of the 1840s. Four models were produced—in 1723, 1740, 1809 and 1831.
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A Prussian grenadier with a 1723 pattern musket at Potzdam City Palace in 1786
1740 pattern musket (top), needle gun and Franco-Prussian War era Mauser rifle made at Spandau Royal Arsenal
Carbine variant of the 1809 Potzdam musket issued to Hessian dragoons in 1814
Union army troops armed with Prussian 1809 pattern muskets