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One hypothesis is that the "Brown Bess" was named after Elizabeth I of England, but this lacks support.Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries, traces the name to at least the 1760s, and his research suggests the name was adopted from slang for a mistress, prostitute, or lowly woman who also appear in period sources referred to as "Brown Bess".
He was sired by Toxophilite, his dam was a bay mare (1857) who was a half-sister to General Peel’s dam, by West Australian (winner of the 1853 British Triple Crown) from Brown Bess (1844) by Camel. [2] Musket was inbred to Touchstone in the fourth generation (4x4).
Significant horses Aloma's Ruler , Brown Bess , Zany Tactics , Jameela "Cowboy" Jack Leroy Kaenel (born July 27, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska ) is a retired American jockey in Thoroughbred racing who, at age 16, became the youngest rider to ever win the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series when he rode Aloma's Ruler to victory in the 1982 ...
Black Bess: John Hunt Morgan: Blackie: George G. Meade: Meade's secondary horse Blackjack: Jefferson Davis: Boney: William Rosecrans: Rosecrans' favorite horse Brown Roan (also referred to as "The Roan") Robert E. Lee: One of Lee's secondary horses, Brown Roan went blind in 1862 and had to be retired Bucephalus: Sterling Price
Brown Bess musket – precursor to the early British rifles. The origins of the modern British military rifle are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket.While a musket was largely inaccurate over 100 yards (91 m), due to a lack of rifling and a generous tolerance to allow for muzzle-loading, it was cheap to produce and could be loaded quickly.
The American Champion Female Turf Horse award is an American Thoroughbred horse ... Chad Brown (2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 ... Brown Bess: 7 Charles Jenda Calbourne ...
Bear in mind a well disciplined and trained soldier could reload and fire the flintlock musket once every 20 seconds. The Brown Bess musket is a muzzle-loading, smooth bore, 990 mm long barrel, flintlock, weighing about 5 kg, shooting a 0.75 calibre projectile. Its effective firing range is 100 to 300 metres.
Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft.Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer.