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Rifles brought from Europe were of little use in the American wilderness. So hunters, frontiersmen, and revolutionaries began demanding something new from their gunsmiths
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Yes actually the 'Pennsylvania rifle'. Nicknamed the Kentucky rifle as that is where they were used in abundance. Rifling added to the barrel and a cloth patch to place the shot ball into made it deadly accurate so to speak for its day. The patch kept the ball tight and the rifling made the ball spin keeping it straight on target.
Washington in trying to get the British ships out of Boston harbor was running out of options they were a pain in the ass for his troops. Firing their cannons disrupting life and property their. He called upon the Kin-Tuks to long distance shoot em with their accurate Penn. rifles. Shoot the Brit. sailors they did so well in fact he had to stop them it became a slaughter.
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allens 'Green Mountain Boys' brought some captured cannons from Ft. Ticonderoga but he needed more. Washington had pipes placed on the overlooking hills to look like cannons about to fire. He told the Brits to leave or die. Leave they did..
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