* " Brown Bess "

The Mexican officers knew that the Brown Bess muskets they carried lacked the range of the Texan weapons, but Santa Anna was convinced that his superior planning would nonetheless result in an easy victory.

) The loading of muskets was, therefore, easy with the old smooth-bore Brown Bess and similar military muskets.

It was only generally applied to the British military musket ( the Brown Bess ) in 1842, a quarter of a century after the invention of percussion powder and after an elaborate government test at Woolwich in 1834.

This was only generally applied to the British military musket ( the Brown Bess ) in 1842, a quarter of a century after the invention of percussion powder and after an elaborate government test at Woolwich in 1834.

The boats were armed with swivel guns loaded with grapeshot, the officers armed with swords and pistols, the marines with " Brown Bess " muskets, and the sailors with torches and axes ; they responded to the single cannon fired by the town's surprised defenders with a massive volley, neither side incurring any casualties.

Theda Arnold, present ( 1979 ) Post Master has copies of the National Archives Records showing later post masters to include, S. J. Robb, 1889 ; Dement Brown, 1891 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1892 ; Benjamin F. Yoder, 1893 ; Jerome S. Rice, 1895 ; Wiliam H. Beck, 1899 ; Oscar Yoder, 1901 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1903 ; Martha A. Miskimins, 1904 ; William R. Kirlin, 1928 ; Verna Bess Coen, 1954 ( acting ); Dale E. Howery, 1956 ; Theda Arnold, 1972, up to present day.

In the middle of the 19th century, muskets and muzzle-loading rifles were. 58 caliber or larger ; the Brown Bess flintlock, for example, had a bore diameter of about. 75 caliber ( 19 mm ).

Still, the Brown Bess saw service until the middle of the nineteenth century.

One hypothesis is that the " Brown Bess " was named after Elizabeth I of England, but this lacks support.

Early uses of the term include the newspaper, the Connecticut Courant in April 1771, which said "... but if you are afraid of the sea, take Brown Bess on your shoulder and march .".

The 1785 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a contemporary work which defined vernacular and slang terms, contained this entry: " Brown Bess: A soldier's firelock.

To hug Brown Bess ; to carry a fire-lock, or serve as a private soldier.

Soldiers of the 42nd Regiment of Foot | Black Watch armed with a musket ( Brown Bess ) and a halberd ( Brown Bill ), c. 1790.

More plausible is that the term Brown Bess derived from the German words " brawn buss " or " braun buss ", meaning " strong gun " or " brown gun "; King George I who commissioned its use was from Germany.

The Long Land Pattern " Brown Bess " musket was the British infantryman's basic arm from about 1740 until the 1830s.

Stress-bearing parts of the Brown Bess, such as the barrel, lockwork, and sling-swivels, were customarily made of iron, while other furniture pieces such as the butt plate, trigger guard and ramrod pipe were found in both iron and brass.

Accuracy of the Brown Bess was fair, as with most other muskets.

The effective range is often quoted as, but the Brown Bess was often fired en masse at to inflict the greatest damage upon the enemy.

The Charleville's. 69 " ( 17. 5mm ) caliber barrel was slightly smaller than its main competitor, the. 75 caliber Brown Bess produced by the British.

This made the Charleville sturdier than the British Brown Bess musket, which used pins to hold the barrel in place.

Unlike later models, the Model 1717 had a pinned barrel, similar in design of the British Brown Bess.

* Brown Bess

There is evidence that it will be happily received by Gov. Brown and the other constitutional incumbents.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

The original machine, bearing its famous serial number, is still on exhibition at the Brown & Sharpe Precision Center in Providence.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

The Machine Tool Division is currently producing Brown & Sharpe single spindle automatic screw machines, grinding machines of many types, and knee and bed-type milling machines.

Recently added is the Brown & Sharpe turret drilling machine which introduces the company to an entirely new field of tool development.

Brown ( 1959 ) has reviewed generally the various methods of assaying TSH, and the reader is referred to her paper for further information on the subject.

Although admitting Brown's guilt on legal grounds, Day said that, `` Brown is no common criminal ; ;

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.

`` Blue Skies, Brown Studies '' is illustrated with numerous excellent photographs.

Brown rice is often offered as an optional alternative to white rice.

* The origins of ` Pursuing Stacks ' This is an account of how ` Pursuing Stacks ' was written in response to a correspondence in English with Ronnie Brown and Tim Porter at Bangor, which continued until 1991.

However, there is no consensus, and according to Raymond E. Brown, the current opinion concerning Lukan authorship is " about evenly divided.

* 1929 – is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

Aalen ’ s territory ranges over all lithostratigraphic groups of the south-German Jurassic: Aalen ’ s south and the Flexner massif are on top of the Weißer Jura ( White Jurassic ), the town centre is on the Brauner Jura ( Brown Jurassic ), and a part of Wasseralfingen is on the Schwarzer Jura ( Black Jurassic ).

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

The many records of native customs and beliefs made by the Spanish chroniclers means that Brown archaeoastronomy is most often associated with studies of astronomy in the Americas.

Aveni states that one of the strengths of the Brown methodology is that it can explore astronomies invisible to statistical analysis and offers the astronomy of the Incas as another example.

Brown University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.