Charleville Armory maker Makin Location Currently not on view Credit Line Mrs. Howell Campbell Date made c. 1768 ID Number AF.74608M catalog number 74608M accession number 293724 catalog number 74608M ...

The rifle carried by the US Marine Corps has evolved significantly, and it has come a long way from the Brown Bess and Charleville muskets used 250 years ago, but the role of those carrying it hasn’t ...

During the Revolutionary War, France supplied the Continental Army with over 25,000 Model 1763 Charleville muskets and thousands of additional Charleville 1766. These muskets fired slightly ...

Smoothbore muskets like the Charleville lacked the spiraled groove rifling that made rifles so accurate, ... the French continued providing thousands of Modele 1763 and 1766 Charleville muskets.

It is a well-used Model 1763 Charleville flintlock musket from the Revolutionary War era, which has “U STATES” branded onto the side along with three sets of carved initials.

Appraisal: French Model 1763/66 Musket, ca. 1770 See Joel Bohy appraise a French model 1763/66 musket, ca. 1770, in Springs Preserve, Hour 2. Aired 10/03/2024 | Rating TV-G ...

Model 1763/66 Charleville ... Charleville muskets in U.S. service were marked with a “United States” surcharge mark commonly found on the lock, barrel and stock of surviving arms.

Welcomed by a shot fired from a model 1763 French Charleville musket, eight canoes carrying French voyageurs and goods down the Du Page River landed at Hammel Woods in Shorewood.

The Charleville musket was a .69 caliber standard French infantry musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was first made in 1717 and last produced during the 1840s.