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American sailors aboard Continental Navy vessels and privateer ships often used French weapons, like this cutlass.

View two intricately decorated small swords, one of which was made in France and other in England.

This powder horn was carried by Virginia rifleman William Waller and is etched with the slogan "LIBERTY or DEATH."

This British musket was made following a pattern developed in 1756 and is marked to the 4th Regiment of Foot.

“GR,” short for Georgius Rex or George the King, was often used on ceramics, including mugs, jugs, and chamber pots.

This eyewitness sketch shows soldiers and camp followers of the Continental Army’s North Carolina Brigade marching through Philadelphia on Aug. 25, 1777.

London publisher John Almon bundled Thomas Paine's Common Sense and James Chalmers' rebuke, Plain Truth, in this June 1776 edition for British readers.

This punch bowl wishes “Success to the Triphena,” a merchant ship that made frequent trips between Philadelphia and Liverpool, England, in the 1760s.

British Army Lieutenant James Grant kept his personal belongings in this chest while he served in America during the French and Indian War.

French and Indian War veteran Colonel Jonathan Pettibone carried this small sword, engraved with his name, during the New York campaign of 1776.