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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BROWN BESS , a name given in the

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BRITISH

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army to the

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LOCK (from the O. Eng. loc.; the word appears, in different forms, in many Teutonic languages, but with such various meanings as " hole," Ger. Loch, " lid," Swed. lock, &c.; probably the original was a root meaning " to enclose ")
LOCK, MATTHIAS

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MUSKET (Fr. mousquet, Ger. Muskete, &c.)

musket with which the

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INFANTRY

infantry were formerly armed . The

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TERM

term is applied generally to the weapon of the ,8th and

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early 19th centuries, and became obsolete on the introduction of the

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RIFLE

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