Word: musketeer
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When the Philadelphia militia was called out in 1776, Peale, dressed in a brown uniform and black tricornered hat, and equipped with a sword, a musket with telescopic sights of his own invention, new fur gloves, a quarter cask of rum and his painting kit. rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads...
...loss, the Commonwealth donated $23,000 for the "new" Harvard Hall, to be designed by the Governor himself. Ten years later the library and the lecture halls became the home for Revolutionary supplies and soldiers who stripped a thousands pounds of lead from the roof to make musket balls. The University issued a bill for L342 to the new government...
Such hot talk, plus a warm little war and a cold-blooded assassination carried the six small nations of Central America into 1955 with characteristic gusto. In countless small but deadly revolutions, from the days of the smoothbore musket through the time of the machine-gunning fighter plane, they have earned their unhappy renown as a sort of American Balkans-plus-volcanoes. Last week the area was smoking in much the way it did during the filibuster-filled past...
...that letter into the fire: I shall never be strong enough to punish your husband." But clemency never interfered with policy. "You must make the skipper speak," he orders, of a sea captain suspected of spying for the English. "You can . . . squeeze his thumbs under the hammer of a musket...
...Shallcrosses. The land was no bargain-it was ten miles northeast of Penn's "greene Country Towne" and in the middle of an Indian-infested wilderness. Neither remoteness nor danger, however, dismayed the Shallcrosses. They built a big stone house-with iron shutters to stop flaming arrows and musket ports for return fire-and resolved to stay...