France showed its support for the American fight for independence by supplying the Continental Army with French Charleville muskets, soon to be known as Charlevilles. In 1777, France shipped ...

Welcomed by a shot fired from a model 1763 French Charleville musket, eight canoes carrying French voyageurs and goods down the Du Page River landed at Hammel Woods in Shorewood.

Forrest was armed with a smoothbore musket – a French Charleville. “This is a replica of a Charleville, a musket that the French gave the Americans during the American Revolution,” Forrest said.