A team of military weapons experts and re-enactors set about testing some of those questions in a new NOVA documentary, Revolutionary War Weapons. To capture all the high-speed ballistics action ...

(fires) I've never experienced or seen anything like this. ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: "Revolutionary War Weapons." Right now, on "NOVA." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: April 19, 1775, Massachusetts. Tensions ...

If seeing a musket turn a nice, ripe honeydew into fruit salad at 60 yards is your idea of fun, “Revolutionary War Weapons” may not be the show for you: What accomplishes the melon assassinati ...

BOSTON, MA – March 27, 2025 – The award-winning PBS science series, NOVA, a production of GBH, today announced the new one-hour film “REVOLUTIONARY WAR WEAPONS” will premiere Wednesday, April 9, 2025, ...

But that didn't stop the revolution because the patriots had some wonder weapons of their own ... camps and combat outposts in some of the Revolutionary War-era defenses tested by "NOVA." ...

Bohy demonstrated all the steps in a new PBS NOVA documentary called “Revolutionary War Weapons,” starting with a paper cartridge filled with gunpowder and a lead ball. “Take the tail, bite it off, ...

The star-spangled makeover of the Princeton Battlefield aims to turn the site into an outdoor classroom and living memorial.

His lecture, “Revolutionary war graves in the First and Second Burial ... people who had never fought before picked up a dusty old rifle for the first time from above the fireplace to fight ...

Here's an overview of the key Revolutionary War battles fought in Massachusetts ... through Lexington and Concord in an attempt to seize weapons from the colonists. Their attempt was mostly ...

From the Brown Bess musket to the world’s first military submarine, get a closeup look at the powerful and sometimes ingenious weapons that helped the colonies win the war. (Premiered April 9 at ...

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