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A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, ... (invented by Claude-Étienne Mini ...
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 1840s. It was made in 1717 and was last produced during the 1840s.
Springfield Model 1861 rifle musket Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle musket. A rifled musket, rifle musket, or rifle-musket is a type of firearm made in the mid-19th century. . Originally the term referred only to muskets that had been produced as a smoothbore weapon and later had their barrels replaced with rifl
It was invented by Richard Jordan Gatling and fielded by the Union forces during the American Civil War. Self-loaders use energy to reload. The first successful self-loading rifle was the Mondragón rifle. The world's first machine gun was the Maxim gun, developed by British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884.
"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 .
The "Brown Bess" muzzle-loading smoothbore musket was one of the most commonly used weapons in the American Revolution. While this was the main British musket, it was briefly used by the Americans until 1777. This musket was used to fire a single shot ball, or a cluster style shot which fired multiple projectiles giving the weapon a "shotgun ...
A wall gun is considered a beefed-up musket and got its name as it was often used at a building’s wall or a ship’s railing. While it’s not what we traditionally think of when we hear the ...
This page also includes Vietnamese muskets — since the early definition of a musket is a "heavy arquebus". [1] The term Jiaozhi arquebus comes from Chinese word Jiao Chong (交銃, lit. ' Jiaozhi Gun'), a generalization of firearms originating from Dai Viet .