These versions include the Long Land Pattern, the Short Land Pattern, the India Pattern, the New Land Pattern Musket and the Sea Service Musket. The musket design remained in use for over a hundred years with many incremental changes in its design. 'Brown Bess' is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives.

User dependent usually 2 to 3 rounds/minuteġ,203 yd (1,100 m) (the maximum range of the bullet when fired at an angle of 60 degrees) Ī front sight cast into the barrel also serving as a bayonet lug Paper cartridge, buck and ball/ musket ball undersized (.69/17.5 mm) to reduce the effects of powder fouling Long Land Pattern, Short Land Pattern, Sea Service Pattern, India Pattern, New Land Pattern, New Light Infantry Land Pattern, Cavalry Carbine Indian Wars, Chickasaw Wars, Dummer's War, First Maroon War, War of the Austrian Succession, Jacobite rising of 1745, Carnatic Wars, French and Indian War, Seven Years' War, Anglo-Mysore Wars, Anglo-Maratha Wars, American Revolutionary War, Xhosa Wars, Australian Frontier Wars, Haitian Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, Coalition Wars, Second Maroon War, Kandyan Wars, Irish Rebellion of 1798, Napoleonic Wars, Emmet's Insurrection, Ashanti-Fante War, Musket Wars, Finnish War, Ga-Fante War, War of 1812, Greek War of Independence, Anglo-Ashanti Wars, Anglo-Burmese Wars, Naning War, Baptist war, Texas Revolution, Rebellions of 1837, First Opium War, Mexican–American War, Second Opium War, Indian Rebellion of 1857, American Civil War, Paraguayan War, Anglo-Zulu War British Empire, various Native American tribes, United States, Haiti, Kingdom of Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Confederate States of America, Zulu Kingdom, Russian Empire

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