The Brown Bess was the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket, its standard service musket from 1722 until 1838, when it was superseded by a percussion cap musket. It armed British regulars through the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Weapon Classmuzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock musket 1 Introduced Year Cross-Tradition Connections
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