The musket balls range in size, dating back almost 250 years, and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War.
Archeologists with the National Park Service made a remarkable discovery after finding musket balls fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War. An examination of the five musket balls, ranging in size from a pea to a marble, indicates that colonial militia members fired them at British forces on April 19, 1775.This discovery of the musket balls is the most ever found from that fight when militia leaders ordered their men to fire on government troops.
"It’s incredible that we can stand here and hold what amounts to just a few seconds of history that changed the world almost 250 years ago," Jarrad Fuoss, a Minute Man Park Ranger and historic weapons specialist, said in an NPS release. "These musket balls can be considered collectively as ‘The Shot Heard Round the World,’ and it is incredible that they have survived this long.
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