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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 the period of ...
The Battle of Nagashino (長篠の戦い, Nagashino no Tatakai) was a famous battle in Japanese history, fought in 1575 at Nagashino in Mikawa Province (present-day Nagashino, Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture). The allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu (38,000) fought against Takeda Katsuyori 's forces (15,000) and the allied forces won ...
The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket , operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) calibre .
A toradar is basically an Indian matchlock. They were found mostly in the Mughal-influenced Northern and Central India. Two types of toradar exist: one has a very slim, from 3 feet (91 cm) to 6 feet (180 cm) long, straight stock with pentagonal-shaped section, and a light barrel; the other type is always between 5 feet (150 cm) to 6 feet (180 cm) long, has a curved stock with diamond-shaped ...