A brief yet compelling history of the British India Pattern musket, tracing its journey from manufacture to obsolescence. The talk explores its production, storage, and use – not only by British forces but also by European allies during the Napoleonic Wars. In the decades that followed, these surplus arms found their way to countries such as Mexico and Brazil. Notably, 23 flintlock muskets known as Englisch Modell were among the first issued to recruits of the Federal Contingent.
In English, free entry
Mark Murray-Flutter is senior curator at the National Firearms Centre and Royal Armouries, Leeds