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so this statue looked like it was golden. it was actually made of lead. 40,000 pounds of lead very valuable commodity. called melted majesty. and here is the amazing thing. this musket ball here recovered by archaeologist at monmouth battlefield in northern, new jersey was fired on june 28th, 1778. scientific analysis looking at the elements has matched that musket ball to the original statue. that is a piece of melted majesty. fired at the british. be a that be is incredible. pete: what you on paper has to be defended by force of arnlsz. that is correct. clayton: tell us what have you here. wanted to show the way you make those musket balls is in these bronze or stone or iron model. you pour that melted lead. it s turned into ammunition, which, today we are used to, we have a cartridge all
Together, you put it inside and fire it. then you had to assemble each one of those charges inside. so had you a cartridge which was essentially a paper tube with gunpowder and one of those musket balls and you would put a little powder in the pan here, you would put the rest of the powder down the barrel. pull the ramrod out seen this in the movies. you would ram that charge down the barrel. you would take the ramrod out. meanwhile the british are charging at you with bayonets. one charge. repeat. abby: unbelievable. pete: in that moment they may be charging with bayonets and can you load it fast enough. clayton: not be nervous about it go to philadelphia and the museum. dr. scott stevenson thank you for joining us on the fourth of july. abby: congratulations on the museum. clayton: new poll says more americans trust president trump more than they do the
Indian war and that type of thing. in fact captain parker was a veteran from the french and indian war and interesting to note, during that time period, the british empire was spread over the world and many of the soldiers fighting that battle in concorde and lexington were young men and had not seen action before. oh, wow. we are looking at the scenes from the battlefield and from the park. you are able to trace where the colonist where and where the british were by finding the musket balls and armaments that were fired and figure out which way they were fired in? yes. we are right now in the minutemen historical park, we are in the middle of the project and closing up the field excavation.
And with the evidence that we have found musket balls and a button that dates to the same time period. we have investigations and investigations and interpretations. to figure out who is standing there, who are they firing at and where very importantly were they being fired at from. and i m sure you would welcome visitors to come to minute man national historical park and check out what you re learning. absolutely. we have a lot of great information and interpretive tours through the site. dr. meg waters, thank you very much for joining us. looks fascinatinfascinating. thank you very much. very cool story. we didn t know about that either. i didn t. we all learn something new. another potential school shooting disrupted as police arrest four teenagers. the details what they had planned next. diabetes, steady is exciting.