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When the US was first getting started as a separate country (1776) the US Army was armed with whatever they could get. Some were armed with civilian flintlock hunting rifles, some with Long Land Pattern British muskets (the Brown Bess) and some with flintlock muskets supplied by the French- see link for some more information: http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/RevAmerica/4-Where/musketfire.html

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