Long before Ahmad Gragn's invasion, Emperor Lebna Dengel (Dawit II) tried to modernize Ethiopia's military with imported firearms. This episode reveals how the first Ethiopian ruler to acquire ...

Kevin Hicks from The History Squad demonstrates how to fire a matchlock musket at English Heritage's Bolsover Castle. Watch as earthquake hits Japan, triggers tsunami warning Prince William reportedly ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google BOSTON — Generations of Boston families played and picnicked on the grassy, sloping lawns of the Bunker Hill Monument.

BOSTON (AP) — Generations of Boston families played and picnicked on the grassy, sloping lawns of the Bunker Hill Monument. Musket balls and other artifacts from one of the American Revolution’s most ...

HALIFAX, N.C. (AP) -- With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around 1 ...