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Description: Battle icon: Two crossed flintlock muskets for the Spanish and Swedish battle stubs in the English wiki. In fact the Spanish could do with some earlier musket (Cortez!), while the Swedish Karolinerna did use all types of muskets, but come on, at 35px width nobody will notice the difference anyway :)
Soldiers of the Black Watch armed with a musket (Brown Bess) and a halberd, c. 1790 Popular explanations of the use of the word "Brown" include that it was a reference to either the colour of the walnut stocks , or to the characteristic brown colour that was produced by russeting, an early form of metal treatment.
Muskets and bayonets aboard the frigate Grand Turk. 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. [1]
Musket model 1845 (Serbian: Руска пушка, Ruska puška), was a Russian percussion musket used in the mid-Nineteenth century. The firearm originated in the Russian Empire , but is best known for the modified rifled Model 1845/63 used extensively by the Serbian army in 1863–1878.
The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded Snider–Enfield rifle.
The Model 1861 was a step forward in U.S. small arms design, being the first rifled shoulder weapon adopted and widely issued as the primary infantry weapon (earlier U.S. martial rifles such as the Harpers Ferry Model 1803 rifle were issued to riflemen rather than the infantry as a whole and production and issuance of the Model 1855 prior to ...
Springfield Model 1863 rifled musket and Enfield Pattern 1861 musketoon Springfield and Enfield lockplates. The Springfield Model 1863 was a .58 caliber rifled musket manufactured by the Springfield Armory and independent contractors between 1863 and 1865. The Model 1863 was only a minor improvement over the Springfield Model 1861. As such, it ...
The Model 1816 musket was originally manufactured at the Springfield and Harpers Ferry armories along with independent contractors between 1816 and 1844. Around 700,000 were made, more than any other flintlock in U.S. history. [4] The Model 1816 was originally manufactured as a flintlock musket.