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A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the ... Early Gunpowder Artillery: 1300–1600, Marlborough: The Crowood Press ...
Kalthoff-type flintlock musket (1600s) at Livrustkammaren. Place of origin: ... This patent specified muskets and pistols that were capable of firing 8-10 shots with ...
By 1600, armies phased out these firearms in favour of a new lighter matchlock musket. Throughout the 16th century and up until 1690, muskets used the matchlock design. However, the matchlock design was superseded in the 1690s by the flintlock musket, which was less prone to misfires and had a faster reloading rate.
The Swedish infantry musket, or the Swedish Land Pattern Musket, was a muzzle-loaded 0.63 (16.002 mm) to 0.81 (20.7mm) [7]-inch calibre smoothbored long gun.These weapons were in service within the Royal Swedish Army from the mid-16th century until the mid-19th century.
The Charleville musket was a .69 caliber standard French infantry musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was made in 1717 and was last produced during the ...
The musket, essentially a large arquebus, was introduced around 1521, but fell out of favor by the mid-16th century due to the decline of armor. The term, however, remained and musket became a generic descriptor for smoothbore gunpowder weapons fired from the shoulder ("shoulder arms") into the mid-19th century. [18]
"Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. The musket design remained in use for over a hundred years with many incremental changes in its design .
By 1600 France set a 1:1 ratio of pikes to firearms, and Spain 10% halberds, 30% pikes, 25% muskets, and 35% arquebuses. [12] In 1560, following an order to increase the proportion of firearms, Spanish units in Italy became 54% pikes and 46% firearms. [13] The Spanish average throughout the 16th century was 2 pikes for every 1 firearm. [14]