Thousands of artifacts connected to nearly 150 shipwrecks, including the Titanic, will be auctioned today, November 6th. The ...

The period of the Mountain Men and their signature firearms is short but outstanding: the golden age in the early 19th ...

In the mid-19th century, many nations updated their obsolete ... this conversion project extended the life of many former flintlock muskets that had already been updated to percussion priming.

Ducks were extremely plentiful along the Potomac in the eighteenth century, and one shot from Davis's "old British musket" generally ... boys of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries made ...

Grasping a long-barrelled musket with his left hand ... British Library A member of the Naga sect in a painting from a 19th Century manuscript describing religious sects in India Not surprisingly ...

34 If anything, modern firearms are much “safer” than 18th and 19th century firearms because they ... protect a specific type of weapon, like a musket, any more than the idea of the First ...

The Tabatière is one of several breechloading conversions of existing military muskets, but unlike many ... For tiger hunters in 19th-century India, there was a very real need for a backup ...

An Old Master painting believed to be by German artist Hans Rottenhammer, which could be worth around £8,000 and a Goliath Ball Watch worth up ...

Items include muskets from the Middlesex Brigade, historic maps, 18th century documents, ceramics, furniture from 18th and early 19th century craftspeople, and more. The Cornelius Low House is ...

During those early years of the new republic, many enslaved African Americans believed freedom was on the horizon, but while the Northern states abolished slavery by the beginning of the 19th century ...

Walking by the banks of the Chao Praya on a breezy evening after a day of intense heat,’ writes Sunil Amrith at the start of ...