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The guns of the American Revolution | Britannica
Mass muskets armed with bayonets would be the principal battlefield weapon of infantry through-- well in Napoleonic wars and then beyond into the American Civil War. Certainly the major weapon of our Revolutionary War and of the War of 1812. Now to fire a musket, you have to have gunpowder.
Muskets and Musketry | Encyclopedia.com
Muskets and Musketry. MUSKETS AND MUSKETRY. The principal infantry projectile weapon of the eighteenth century was the muzzle-loading flintlock musket. Using a complex double-ignition system, this smoothbore firearm threw a lead ball weighing about an ounce and up to three-quarters of an inch in diameter with an accuracy and rate of fire that ...
Musket | Definition & Facts | Britannica
Musket, muzzle-loading shoulder firearm, evolved in 16th-century Spain as a larger version of the harquebus. Muskets were matchlocks until flintlocks were developed in the 17th century, and in the early 19th century flintlocks were replaced by percussion locks.
Musket - Wikipedia
A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour. By the mid-16th century, this type of musket gradually disappeared as the use of heavy armour declined, but musket continued as the generic term for smoothbore ...
Fire By Volley: European Musketry at War - Warfare History Network
Fire By Volley: European Musketry at War. While musket volley fire was used often during 17th and 18th-century warfare, the methods of delivery of that firepower frequently diverged. This article appears in: August 2011.
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