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Q: Which gun is the oldest musktoon blunderbluss or brown bess?
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In what chapter of the novel My Brother Sam is Dead is the incident about Brown Bess?

A lot of the chapters contain information about the Brown Bess. The Brown Bess is the family gun of the Meekers, and is taken by Sam to fight in the Revolution.


Whats the difference between a Brown Bess and a bayonet?

The Brown Bess is a firearm, a bayonet is an attachment to a firearm like a knife.


Why was the muskeet called the brown bess?

Although popular to the ill-informed masses , the Brown Bess was not named for the color of its stock, nor its barrel, nor for the Queen, it was called the 'brown bess' because of then common use of the word 'brown' as meaning drab or cheap, and the word 'bess' was used to refer to a cheap woman or harlot. The barrel was often cheaply treated or painted brown to protect it from rusting. Thus among the lower class of soldiers that often carried them, the term ' brown bess', that was first used in the 1600's, became an appealing name for their own 'harlot' piece.


What guns did they use in the revoulutionary war?

The Brown Bess and the Charleville muskets


What did bess houdini look like?

she was short with brown/gray hair.


How much is a brown bess worth?

depends on overall condition...............


What is the bladed gun redcoats used?

The Brown Bess musket with a bayonet attached.


Did they use the bayonet and the brown Bess musket in World War 2?

Brown Bess, definitely no! That's a weapon of the 1700's. It took too long to reload. American Military did not have bayonets attached to their weapons but the Japanese did.


The standard infantry weapon during the revolution was a flintlock musket called a?

brown bess


What is a Brown Bess?

It was a British musket used in much of the 1700s and the first half of the 18000s.


What gun is worth 1500 dollars?

The Musket ''Brown Bess'' they used in the american revolution


What is the plural possessive form of Bess?

The plural form of the proper noun Bess is Besses.The plural possessive form is Besses'.Example: The two Besses' last names are Brown and Burke.