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In each episode, Willis tests a series of iconic weapons, from muskets and pistols to assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), and examines their historical significance. The premiere episode looks at the evolution of the handgun, going back to its earliest days on 16th century battlefields.
"French Infantry Musket, M1728 ("Charleville")". The Army Historical Foundation. Rutherford, Kenneth R. (2020). America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie. About the Book. ISBN 978-1-61121-453-6. By the end of the war in 1865, some 2,000 "Rains mines" had been built and deployed
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]
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In the late 17th century AD, the Trịnh army used long muskets, with a barrel length between 1.2–2 m (3 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in), resulting in its heavier weight. They were carried on man's back and fired 124 g (4.4 oz) shots. Firing requires a stand, made from a piece of wood from 1.83–2.13 cm (0.72–0.84 in) long. [12]
The English army of the Nine Years War in the 1690s still had 2 muskets for every 1 pike. [26] Meanwhile, by 1687, the French army's ratio was set at 75–80% muskets and 20–25% pikes. [27] At the start of the Great Northern War in 1700, Russian line infantry companies were 83% muskets and 17% pikes. The musketeers were initially equipped ...
Wall guns were used in India as early as the 17th century [11] and there is a Burmese source from the late 15th century mentioning the use of "cannon and muskets" by the defenders of the besieged town of Prome. [12] There are examples of later wall guns fitted with bipods. [13] This weapon figures in Kipling's poem "The Grave of the Hundred Head".
The Ngāpuhi force had a few muskets, making this the first occasion Māori used muskets in warfare. The Ngāti Whātua force ambushed the Ngāpuhi, and won the battle, which occurred at Moremonui Gully where it enters Ripiro Beach , 19 kilometres (12 miles) south of Maunganui Bluff on the west coast of Northland .