Brown Bess
Brown Bess, popular name of the British Long Land Pattern Musket, Short Land Pattern Musket, India Pattern Musket, New Land Pattern Musket, New Light Infantry Land Pattern Musket, Cavalry Carbine, and Sea Service Pattern Musket, which entered service in 1722 and served for over a century, until it was superseded in 1853 by the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle-musket.