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BROWN BESS

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 663 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BROWN BESS , a name given in the British army to the flint-lock
musket
  with which the
infantry
  were formerly armed. The
term
  is applied generally to the weapon of the ,8th and early 19th centuries, and became obsolete on the introduction of the rifle. The first
part
  of the name derives from the colour of the wooden stock, for the name is found much earlier than the introduction of " browning " the barrel of muskets; " Bess " may be either a humorous feminine equivalent of the "
brown
 -
bill
 ," the old weapon, of the British
infantry
 , or a corruption of the " buss," i.e. box, in "
blunderbuss
 ."


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