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The Independent UK
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Michael Casey

Archeologists find musket balls fired during 1 of the first battles in the Revolutionary War

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Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first major battle in the Revolutionary War.

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