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Contents. Matchlock. A matchlock or firelock[ 1 ] is a historical type of firearm wherein the gunpowder is ignited by a burning piece of flammable cord or twine that is in contact with the gunpowder through a mechanism that the musketeer activates by pulling a lever or trigger with their finger. This firing mechanism was an improvement over the ...
Tanegashima (種子島), most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock -configured [ 1 ] arquebus [ 2 ] firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese Empire in 1543. [ 3 ] It was used by the samurai class and their ashigaru "foot soldiers", and within a few years its ...
The book is set in the year 1756 during the French and Indian War in Guilderland, New York.Ten-year-old Edward Van Alstyne (throughout the book, he is called "Ateoord", which is his name in Dutch) and his mother Gertrude are determined to protect their home and family with an ancient (and much too heavy) Spanish matchlock gun that Edward's great-grandfather had brought from Bergen Op Zoom in ...
Antique Japanese matchlock ( tanegashima ), showing the firing mechanism. Note the V-shaped mainspring. The snap matchlock is a type of matchlock mechanism used to ignite early firearms. It was used in Europe from about 1475 to 1640, and in Japan from 1543 until about 1880, and was also largely used by Korea (Joseon) during the Imjin war to the ...
Firearms of Japan. A rack of Japanese tanegashima (matchlocks) of the Edo period, Himeji Castle, Japan. Firearms were introduced to Japan in the 13th century during the first Mongol invasion and were referred to as teppō. [1] Portuguese firearms were introduced in 1543, [2] and intense development followed, with strong local manufacture during ...
An arquebus (/ ˈɑːrk (w) əbəs / AR-k (w)ə-bəs) is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century. An infantryman armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier. The term arquebus is derived from the Dutch word Haakbus ("hook gun"). [ 1 ] The term arquebus was applied to many different forms of ...
Flintlock. Flintlock of an 18th-century hunting rifle, with flint missing. Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint -striking ignition mechanism, the first of which appeared in Western Europe in the early 16th century. The term may also apply to a particular form of the mechanism itself, also known as the true flintlock ...
According to Shinchō Kōki, [b] Nobunaga deployed about 1,000 matchlock guns between five commanders – Sassa Narimasa, Maeda Toshiie, Nonomura Masanari, Fukuzumi Hidekatsu and Ban Naomasa – and had the ashigaru press the enemy close. [8] [19] [24] Regarding the number of matchlock guns, the original entry in the Shinchō Kōki [b] states ...