In a mere two months, soldiers learned how to load and fire a musket quicker and more efficiently, and were introduced to the bayonet, allowing them to engage more successfully when in close combat ...

The dig took place at Mont-Saint-Jean farm in present-day Belgium, targeting an area that served as a field hospital during ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince has recently been published in Prussian under the name Likuts Princis. The new translation of this masterpiece of world literature is the result of the ...

Archaeologists and veterans also found musket balls and a cannon ball ... which saw the French army defeated by the allied British and Prussian troops. Guide: The Battle of Waterloo In pictures ...

Within three weeks in October of 1806, he brought the Prussians to their knees. Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna and Auerstädt, Napoleon captured 140,000 prisoners and left ...

At the marriage of the Princess ALEXANDRINE, of Prussia, tureens of soup were placed before the King and his family by Prussian nobles, and other duties were fulfilled which show that the Prussian ...

The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms ...

Two musket balls were found in the digs at Culloden, with the one on the left showing signs of impact Two lead musket balls - one showing signs of impact - are among finds made in new ...

The Peace of Aachen ended the conflict in 1748 and formally ceded Silesia to Prussia, a triumph for the new Prussian king. Frederick II accedes to the throne of Prussia after the death of his father.

For 53 years, the all coveted Musket has been passed back and forth between David Crockett and Daniel Boone in one of East Tennessee high school football's richest rivalries. On Friday night ...