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Alexander Hamilton backed the idea, saying that “an essential part of the plan is to give them their freedom with their muskets.”

Give them ropes and muskets, dress them in skins and watch them scale a replica of the Capitol, smash windows, hunt cowering politicians and attack security forces like the heroes we know them to be.

Artefacts recovered from the battlefield in recent years have included lead musket balls and a shoe buckle believed to have belonged to a clan chief.

Among the dozens and dozens of weapons hanging on the wall for sale are double barrel black powder shotguns – akin to a musket – and a few "they-don't-make-these-anymore" Winchester rifles from the 1800s.

In April this year, the musket ball hole was found behind a secret panel by volunteer researchers from the House’s History Team.