The American destroyer USS Higgins simulated an expeditionary reload of a Standard Missile-2 last month.

Until the 1850s, the British military still used a large-caliber, smoothbore musket as its main infantry arm. That all changed with the introduction of the Pattern 1851 Minié Rifle.

Monday was a day for celebration at the Museum of the American Revolution as staff debuted a long-lost Revolutionary War musket.