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The musket is a .75 caliber flitlock musket were the standard long guns of the British Empire's land forces. Their are alot of different versions of the brown bess that include the Long Land Pattern, Short Land Pattern, India Pattern, New Land Pattern Musket, Sea Service Musket and others. They used this gun in both sides of the American Revolutionary War. It was desinged in 1722 and all of the variants were produced form 1722-1860. The brown bess can fire about 100 yards but their is not good accuracy beyond 60-100 yards. The Land Pattern musket was 62.5 inches long and weighed about 15 pounds with the bayonet attached and it fired a lead ball that was 1.9 cm in diameter. They would line up in rows of soldiers marching towards each other, while firing at eachother because the gun was very inaccurate so if they did that then they might have a better chance of hitting someone. But when they got close enough they woulod stab them with the bayonet. A good soldire could get 3 shots a minuet.

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