What is a musket? and what is the suffolk resolves?

A musket is an old gun which was used in the revolutionary war

The musket was used in the civil war most notably and is a weapon that uses gun powder and a small lead ball to maim or kill the person being aimed at.

The Suffolk resolves was a declaration made on Sept, 9, 1774 by the leaders of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, which declined the governments boycott of imported goods from Britain unless the Intolerable Acts were repealed 
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The statistics for the eastern war are grim. more than three-million men died in the fighting, more than nine-million men were wounded, and every major country which participated lost its form of government.