"Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. The...

All of these weapons were commonly used in the revolutionary war. The "Brown Bess" muzzle-loading smoothbore musket was one of the most commonly used weapons...

Porgy and Bess (/ˈpɔːrɡi/) is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist...

Brown. Bess has stated that "sports pretty much kept me busy, kept me out of trouble, kept me off the streets." Largely raised by a single mom, Bess was...

Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong (born December 11, 1953) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Four Seasons (1981), High Road...

of the Baker. The first model resembled the British infantry musket ("Brown Bess"), but was rejected as too heavy. Baker was provided with a German Jäger...

origins of the modern British military rifle are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket. While a musket was largely inaccurate over 100 yards (91 m), due...

Look up Bess or BESS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bess or BESS may refer to: Bess (name), a given name, nickname and surname, including lists of...

The barrel was attached to the buttstock with metal pins similar to the Brown Bess instead of the metal bands used on later muskets. Early versions of this...

Caplocks were generally applied to the British military musket (the Brown Bess) in 1842, a quarter of a century after the invention of percussion powder...

British .75 caliber Brown Bess, but the Model 1795 also had both a slightly longer range and slightly better accuracy than the Brown Bess musket. This gave...

was slightly smaller than its main competitor, the 0.75-inch caliber Brown Bess produced by the British. The smaller round was intentionally chosen to...

infantryman was equipped with the .75 calibre Land Pattern Musket, or Brown Bess. He was well trained by the standards of the time, training with live...

musket became wildly inaccurate at long range. Compared to the British Brown Bess, it fired musket balls that fitted more tightly into the barrel resulting...

manufacture, many jezails used the lock mechanism from captured or broken Brown Bess muskets. The stocks were handmade and ornately decorated, featuring a...

2017-03-16. "Brown Bess". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 2017-03-18. Murray-Fletcher, Mark (2015-06-17). "Muskets at the Battle of Waterloo, the Brown Bess". The...

Countess of Shrewsbury (née Hardwick; c. 1521  – 13 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick, of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, was a notable figure of Elizabethan...

imported British mare Mersey, whose sire was Knowsley. Carbine was inbred to Brown Bess in the third and fourth generations. He was a half-brother to the stakes...

via journals.lib.unb.ca. James, Garry (23 September 2010). "Britain's Brown Bess". rifleshootermag.com. RifleShooter. Scott, Douglass; Bohy, Joel; Boor...

Thomas Ditson of Billerica, Massachusetts. Ditson attempted to purchase a Brown Bess musket from a British soldier in the 47th Regiment of Foot in Boston in...

hats and white powdered wigs. It is equipped with muskets modeled on the Brown Bess (a design first developed in 1722 for service with the British Army),...

in 1745. Nevertheless, Jacobite Army troops quickly acquired many of Brown Bess muskets and bayonets after their victory at the Battle of Prestonpans...

fired a slightly smaller calibre shot than that of the British Army's Brown Bess. Analysis of the finds confirms that the Jacobites used muskets in greater...

uncorroborated high figure of deaths. In addition, two soldiers fired Brown Bess muskets in protection of a Risdon Cove settler being beaten on his farm...

Anne Brown (August 9, 1912 – March 13, 2009) was an American lyric soprano for whom George Gershwin rewrote the part of "Bess" into a leading role in the...

Blunderbuss" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2023. See Brown Bess. Charles Francis Hoban (1853). Pennsylvania Archives., page 324, from...

barrel and could be better wielded from horseback than the standard "Brown Bess" musket or Baker rifle. The British army updated their cavalry carbines...

A "Brown Bess" muzzle-loading musket, used by the British Army from 1722 to 1838...

the exception of the rifle regiments, the infantry were armed with the Brown Bess musket, essentially the same weapon the Army had used since the early...

War, but shortly after they were retired and replaced with the standard Brown Bess musket. In turn the American army, after getting some experience with...