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A musketeer (French: mousquetaire [muskətɛʁ] ⓘ) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare , particularly in Europe, as they normally comprised the majority of their infantry.
The fictional universe of the Spiral is divided into several worlds, each consisting of multiple areas. The worlds of the Spiral are islands suspended in midair within spheroid atmospheres. The first world in the game, Skull Island, is a cluster of jungle islands which serves as a pirate haven. Ships in the game sail and make port in midair.
A map of Pirate Adventure world by Aaron A. Reed from 50 Years of Text Games project. Published by Adventure International and the second game of the series, after Adventureland, this text-based adventure game was one of many adventure games created by Scott Adams, [1] in this case based on his wife Alexis's ideas. [2]
The Musketeer is a 2001 American action–adventure film based on Alexandre Dumas's classic 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, directed and photographed by Peter Hyams, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Tim Roth and Justin Chambers. The film features Tsui Hark's regular actor Xin-Xin Xiong as a stunt choreographer and ...
Musketoons had a brass or iron barrel, and used a wheellock, flintlock or caplock [1] firing mechanism, like the typical musket of the period. They were fired from the shoulder like the musket, but the shorter length (barrels were as short as a foot (30 cm) long) made them easier to handle for those in restricted conditions, such as mounted infantry and naval boarding parties.
The story, set in 17th-century France, follows a young Dogtanian (D'Artagnan (ダルタニヤン) in the original Japanese version and voiced by Satomi Majima (間嶋 里美) and D'Artacán in the Spanish version) who travels from Béarn to Paris in order to become one of King Louis XIII of France's musketeers (they are referred to as musketeers throughout the cartoon and only the title calls ...
Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed by the Clipper Software. The game takes place in 1562, during the French Wars of Religion , when France was being polarized between the Catholics and Huguenots and expected an assault from the English.
Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat (whose working title was Pirates of Skull Cove [3]) is a 2002 action-adventure video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. [4]