This week, a lecture on the American Revolution and its weaponry, including the Brown-Best-Muzzle-loading smooth-bore musket, most commonly used weapon in the American Revolution.

This is a replica of the 1756 flintlock musket.

All right.

It's about four and a half feet long, weighs about

eight to ten pounds. And this is standard, standard issue. You will have this, you will own this,

and you will love this, don't lose it. Don't break it. The lecture from Baylor University with

Professor Julie Ann Sweet begins in a moment.

When we last met, you all declared independence. So that means we have to go to war.

And so in order to do that, we need to recruit our troops. We need to train them. We need to drill them.

We need to arm them, all those sorts of good things. Before we do that, I want to talk just briefly about military

history in general. We're going to set aside our political history for now.

Next couple weeks, it's military history, all full go, all full go.

So here's the thing.

There's certain challenges that folks who study military history are going to encounter.

Like what?

What are some of the things that you can see military historians having problems with?

Running into it.

Yeah.

History being written by the winners?

Yeah.

I like to change it up and say, to the winners go the history.

Because what they end up doing is they're the ones that are going to tell the story.

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