From the infancy of the American fire service ... the early 16th century—all the way through the civil war, more than 250 years later. Muskets were readily available and sufficiently reliable ...

Tom Watson tells the story of Bishop Peter Mews wounded many times in the First English Civil War and, 40 years later, at the Battle of Sedgemoor.

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

However, new weapons like the pike and longbow changed the battlefield. At Morgarten (1315), Swiss foot soldiers defeated ...

And it’s instant rapid fire. It is almost as if, when they came up with the Gatling Gun in the Civil War, where everyone’s doing single musket, and then the Gatling Gun. . . I mean like when ...

Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a journey to Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park.

Unlike older muskets, rifles had special barrels that made bullets spin, making them more accurate and able to shoot farther. This had a big impact on wars like the American Civil War. With these ...

It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the 15th Amendment gave voting ... Flora probably shivered from the cold in a wool coat, musket in hand. He “crouched in the lee of a pile of shingles ...