NARRATOR: "Revolutionary War Weapons." Right now, on "NOVA." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: April 19, 1775, Massachusetts. Tensions between the British and the American colonists are at a boiling point.

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary ... of those questions in a new NOVA documentary, Revolutionary War Weapons. To capture all the high-speed ballistics action ...

versus the cartridge fired by a British-issue Lee-Enfield, a standard weapon of World War I. “Revolutionary War Weapons” is about implements of destruction, but it’s about technology ...

REVOLUTIONARY WAR WEAPONS uses modern technology to examine the military ... who created the technology as a way for the colonists to combat the British’s powerful naval fleet. Live demonstrations ...

This week, the show travels back to the American Revolution to explore the science of the weapons used by all ... combat outposts in some of the Revolutionary War-era defenses tested by "NOVA." ...

Massachusetts was the site of various battles during the Revolutionary War ... these battles, British troops marched through Lexington and Concord in an attempt to seize weapons from the colonists.

On May 10, 1775, just weeks after the first shots of the Revolutionary ... a cache of weapons that the Continental Army later used to force the British out of Boston. To mark the 250th anniversary ...

In this situation, the British came up, run him through with the bayonet ... Bohy demonstrated all the steps in a new PBS NOVA documentary called “Revolutionary War Weapons,” starting with a paper ...