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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 10351375, member: 20148&quot;]Sorry, this is a little late, but.......</p><p><br /></p><p>This was originally a Brown Bess musket, probably an India pattern, which came out in ca.1797. Many were converted from the original flintlock system to the percussion ignition system in the early 1830&#039;s. This one of those muskets. They would eventually be replaced by the Brunswick rifle and the later Enfield rifled musket.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original musket was adopted in ca,1797, being an easier to produce version of the earlier Land pattern musket, which was required for the French Revolutionary War, shortly to become the Napoleonic War. If the musket was produced in the same numbers as the India pattern bayonet, then some three million were produced from 1797-1817.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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