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	Volume 8 - Chapter 2: The Brown Boss
		Bess was thought to be an affectionate nickname, yet another thought it was a derivation from the German word 'Busche' which meant 'gun'.
		The Brown Bess was carried by the soldiers in 1755 when General Burd cut his road from Carlisle with the intentions of meeting the Braddock trail.
		Perhaps the greatest concentration of Brown Bess muskets in the United States is in Williamsburg, Virginia.
	www.everettarea.org /tales/v08/v08c02.htm (1219 words)

	Brown Bess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brown Bess is a nickname of unknown origin for the British Army's Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives.
		Popular explanations of the use of the word "Brown" include that it was a reference to either the color of the walnut stocks or to the characteristic brown color that was produced by russeting, an early form of metal treatment.
		Similarly, the word "Bess" is commonly held to either derive from the word arquebus or blunderbuss (predecessors of the musket) or to be a reference to Elizabeth I of England, considered unlikely as she died more than a century before the introduction of the weapon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brown_Bess (1164 words)

	Brown Bess etymology - misconceptions
		To hug Brown Bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a private soldier." A generation later, a character in Thackeray's Barry Lyndon would echo an English drinking song in which "married to Brown Bess" was the soldiers' phrase for being in the King's army.
		So in its original use, Brown Bess was slang and a term of poetic endearment, much in the way people today give names of endearment to their boats or cars.
		Brown Bess, with all her charms, remains an authentic figure in the American Revolution.
	footguards.tripod.com /01ABOUT/01_weapons/01_WpBessRyan.htm (1174 words)

	Brown Bess
		Brown Bess was the colloquial name for the 0.75 calibre flintlock musket which was the standard British military long gun from 1728 until the middle of the 19th Century.
		As such, it was the most common long arm in use by both sides at the start of the American Revolution.
		A cheaper version with a 39 inch barrel was manufactured for the British East India Company, and eventually adopted by the British Army in 1790 as the India Pattern.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/br/Brown_Bess.html (250 words)

	Guards Brown Bess origin of the name
		Bess, or bus, is the last syllable of the old arquebuse or harquebus, cut off for seperate use, just as in the more recent instance of bus from omnibus.
		Could we ascertain who first in mercy obtained the browning of the barrel, we might have some prospect of ascertaining the first introduction of the term "Brown Bess." Doubtless it was some hero of the fight, not the field-day.
		For a further illustration of the term Brown Bess it may be proper to remark, that in Northumberland, according to Halliwell, a gun is known by the not very elegant title of fl bitch.
	footguards.tripod.com /01ABOUT/01_weapons/01_WpBessOrigin.htm (453 words)

	From Bright Steel to Brown: British Army Brown Bess Barrels, 1757-1815
		Browning preserves the arms and they are cleaned with bees wax once or twice every six months, thus, preventing rust and making it unnecessary to remove the barrel as is so frequently done now.
		When Brown Barrels are in constant use tile Brown might be continually kept perfect by means of the application of vinegar, which should remain upon the surface for a Day, and then be washed well with boiling water.
		The Barrel, with the Socket and Neck of the Bayonet only, are to be Browned; they should he rubbed over either with a fine File, or with coarse Emery Paper, previous to their receiving the Browning Liquid, in order that its effect may be the greater.
	www.militaryheritage.com /browning.htm (1576 words)

	Bess
		The basic Brown Bess musket mounted a round, smoothbore,.75-caliber barrel on a walnut "heart wood" stock held by a vertical screw through the breech plug tang plus lateral cross-pins that pierced tenons brazed to its underside.
		The Brown Bess patterns employed in the Revolutionary War are best considered in two categories that are most easily identified by their barrel lengths: the 46" "Long Land" and the 42" "Short Land" muskets.
		Brown Bess trigger guards include the first type (1.) as used on the Long Land Pattern 1730 guns, which still retained the early Dutch influence with lobed finials and each end.
	www.11thpa.org /Bess.html (3611 words)

	Product Review;The Officer's Model Brown Bess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Officer's Model Brown Bess musket currently being offered by North Star West Traders was the last gun designed and built by Robert ``Curly'' Gostomski, longtime NMLRA director and avid rendezvouser and gunsmith.
		It differs from standard issue Brown Bess muskets in many ways, the most noticeable of which is the caliber.
		North Star West's Officer's Model Brown Bess is available as a finished gun, ``in the white,'' or as a kit.
	www.muzzleblasts.com /vol1no1/articles/bess.html (1163 words)

	"Brown Bess" - notes
		Brown Bess was heavy and, in her early days, only effective at short range, but she won the battles by her determined manner.
		The Brown Bess who followed the soldiers refers to the women ‘camp-followers’ who travelled with, or in the rear, of an army, and were either connected with individual men or made themselves more generally available.
		This, of course, is Brown Bess who throughout the poem who has been referred to not simply as a military weapon, but as a sexual comforter, whether at the level of a humble camp-follower or a fashionable society hostess.
	www.kipling.org.uk /rg_brownbess_notes_p.htm (1124 words)

	The Price of Freedom: Brown Bess Musket
		Brown Bess is the nickname of the British Short Land Pattern musket.
		The Brown Bess fired round lead balls, some the size of a quarter.
		Another explanation is the russeting of the barrel, a process used to prevent corrosion which also left the barrel a rich brown color.
	americanhistory.si.edu /militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=88 (276 words)

	HB Family 22
		Windfall's daughter bred Brown Bess, who was by Wall's stallion Magician (by The Flying Dutchman, out of Magic, by Melbourne), who had been purchased in England after running well as a juvenile there.
		Brown Bess's first foal was Regina (1879), by Prince, a son of Artillery and winner of sixteen races in Ireland, six of them as an unbeaten three-year old.
		Brown Bess, bred by Valentine Wall at Nutstown, Garristown, Co. Dublin, won a steeplechase at Ardee at age four, and the Irish Grand National at age five.
	www.tbheritage.com /HistoricDams/HBMares/HB22.html (1059 words)

	Brown Bess - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BROWN BESS, a name given in the British army to the flintlock musket with which the infantry were formerly armed.
		The term is applied generally to the weapon of the 18th and early 19th centuries, and became obsolete on the introduction of the rifle.
		The first part of the name derives from the colour of the wooden stock, for the name is found much earlier than the introduction of "browning" the barrel of muskets; "Bess" may be either a humorous feminine equivalent of the "brown-bill," the old weapon of the British infantry, or a corruption of the "buss," i.e.
	www.1911ency.org /B/BR/BROWN_BESS.htm (134 words)

	Can it be the AR is today's Brown Bess? - THR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Both the Brown Bess and Charleville were large bore smoothbore muskets with bores the gauge of today's shotguns (the Charleville was.69 caliber and the Bess was.75 caliber.) For an average farmer, a smoothbore musket made a lot more sense.
		The AR cannot fill the bill because it is not as versatile, not as reliable, not as common, and not as well-known as the modern Brown Bess: the pump shotgun.
		The way in which the AR can be likened to the Brown Bess is that the Bess had a higher rate of fire than a rifle because it was smoothbore.
	www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=7843 (3105 words)

	Factsheets Database - The Brown Bess Musket - Powered by ReviewPost
		Others argue that mass-produced weapons of the time were completely coated in brown varnish: on metal parts as a rust preventative; and on wood as a sealer (or in the case of unscrupulous contractors, to disguise inferior or non-regulation types of wood).
		Similarly, the word andquot;Bessandquot; is commonly held to either derive from the word arquebus or blunderbuss (predecessors of the musket) or to be a reference to Elizabeth I of England, considered unlikely as she died more than a century before the introduction of the weapon.
		More plausible is that the term Brown Bess could have been derived from the German words andquot;brawn bussandquot; or andquot;braun bussandquot;, meaning andquot;strong gunandquot; or andquot;brown gunandquot;; King George I who commissioned its use was from Germany.
	www.trackpads.com /factsheets/showproduct.php/product/498 (1346 words)

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		There are two published instances of the term “brown bess” from the Revolutionary War period, but the way that the term is used is not what we might expect.
		A possible origin of “bess” is from the Dutch “bus”, for gun barrel, as in “arquebus” and “blunderbuss,” but this origin is not certain and is disputed.
		The information that we have indicates that a soldier might “be wed to Brown Bess,” but would never “be issued a brown bess.” Further research might turn up different types of usage, but until it does we must assume that “brown bess” was used only in the manner for which we have examples.
	www.revwar75.com /library/hagist/brownbess.htm (613 words)

	Shopzilla - brown bess rifle Hunting & Archery Equipment shopping - Shop for Sports Equipment & Outdoor Gear online
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		British "Brown Bess" Rifle The "Brown Bess" was one of the most renowned flintlock muskets...
	www.shopzilla.com /7Y_-_cat_id--12150125__keyword--brown+bess+rifle (292 words)

	Guards Brown Bess flintlock musket
		'Brown Bess' is the popular name of a series of flintlock muskets produced by or for the British Army over a long period (from the Marlborough wars in the early 1700s to the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s).
		The term 'Brown Bess' was certainly used in America during before and during the RevWar, but it was a slang term that may not have been used as invariably as the term is used today.
		The weapon borne by the First Foot Guards in the American conflict was officially referred to as the Short Land Service Musket (new pattern) 1768.
	footguards.tripod.com /01ABOUT/01_weapons/01_WpBess.htm (250 words)

	DSFMC: The Brown Bess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Contemporary accounts show that a Brown Bess could be bad news to a mansized target on 50 or even 100 yards.
		We include an interesting original drawing from the Brown Bess page of His Majesty's 64th Regiment of Foot (a US reenactment group).
		The Bess is not an ideal substitute for the nordic guns of the Napoleonic era!
	heim.ifi.uio.no /~oddharry/dsfmc/bbess.html (1285 words)

	Brown - definition from Biology-Online.org
		(Longfellow) brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.
		brown hematite or brown iron ore, a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.
		brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Brown (196 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Brown Bess
		The barrels were browned to keep them from rusting.
		) In 1808 a process of browning was introduced, but this has, of course, nothing to do with the distinctive epithet.
		Probably Bess is a companion word to Bill.
	www.bartleby.com /81/2561.html (88 words)

	Brown Bess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		n Tuesday, April 1, 1997, Brown Bess foaled a dark bay or brown filly by Al Mamoon at Harris Farms.
		Brown Bess (Petrone - Chickadee, by Windy Sands), the 1989 Turf Eclipse Award winning filly/mare, won 3 grade I Turf events, including the 1989 running of the Yellow Ribbon at Santa Anita.
		Brown Bess’s earnings at the end of her racing career were $1,300,000.
	www.harrisfarms.com /bbess.htm (121 words)

	Brown Bess Flintlock Musket (Black Powder Muzzleloader)
		Throughout the Napoleonic Wars nearly 3 million of these brown bess muskets were manufactured and distributed to Britain's infantry regiments.
		Aside from being a pound lighter and 3 inch shorter barrel, the main differences from the previous "Short Land" pattern and the India pattern were ones of style (removal of the thumb plate and only three pipes for the ramrod instead of four).
		This replica is made by the same company that made the India Pattern Brown Bess Muskets for the TV series Sharpe's Rifles.
	www.militaryheritage.com /musket1.htm (480 words)

	Najecki Reproductions (Musket Tools and Parts)
		This natural brown paper is sold in a 18"x24" tablet of 100 sheets for under $10.
		The older Italian Bess mainsprings can be replaced, but it takes drilling and filing to make the replacement springs fit.
		This sling is made to fit a 2nd Model Brown Bess with 26½" between the sling swivels.
	www.najecki.com /repro/Musket.html (1347 words)

	94th Regiment Brown Bess
		True Regimentally marked British Brown Bess muskets - with regimental ownership marks definitively engraved directly upon the barrel - are rarities in first and second model Brown bess muskets.
		A third model Brown Bess marked directly on the barrel like this one is a truly great rarity.
		The musket is accompanied by an original 'Brown Bess' bayonet in matching condition.
	www.aagaines.com /man/seago.html (724 words)

	Amazon.com: Gershwin: Porgy & Bess [With Members of the Original Cast]: Music: Original Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		bess in the original score is operatic, but shriller than in later versions and porgy, also operatic, has a thinner voice than later porgies; that all might be due to recording quality.
		The reunited two of the original cast stars, Todd Duncan and Anne Brown and the original conductor from the 1935 Broadway permiere.
		Porgy and Bess was originally staged as musical theater, with a tough schedule; and concessions were made to preserve the perfomers' voices.
	www.amazon.com /Gershwin-Porgy-Bess-Members-Original/dp/B000002OJM (1816 words)

	Brown Bess Rifle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Brown Bess was probably the most famous rifle of the Colonial period.
		It was a.75 calibre, muzzle loading rifled musket, and served in the British Army for over forty years until it was replaced by the.57 cal Enfield.
		The second picture is of the Brown Bess carbine.
	www.securityarms.com /20010315/galleryfiles/1300/1353.htm (63 words)

	The Brown Bess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This musket came to be affectionately called the "Brown Bess".
		While the exact origin of this nickname has become obscured over the years, one explanation states that the name came from the colour of the walnut stock.
		Prior to the "Brown Bess", stocks were painted fl.
	freenet.vcu.edu /sigs/reg64/bess.html (466 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the days of lace-ruffles, perukes and brocade Brown Bess was a partner whom none could despise-- An out-spoken, flinty-lipped, brazen-faced jade, With a habit of looking men straight in the eyes-- At Blenheim and Ramillies fops would confess They were pierced to the heart by the charms of Brown Bess.
		Though her sight was not long and her weight was not small, Yet her actions were winning, her language was clear; And everyone bowed as she opened the ball On the arm of some high-gaitered, grim grenadier.
		When ruffles were turned into stiff leather stocks, And people wore pigtails instead of perukes, Brown Bess never altered her iron-grey locks.
	www.poetryloverspage.com /poets/kipling/brown_bess.html (211 words)

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