matchlock musket

He wouldn't have believed such shooting possible with matchlock muskets.

Over time, the hand cannon evolved into the matchlock musket.

The weather was important because the matchlock muskets of the day would not work in wet conditions.

This made them more accurate than the standard flintlock or matchlock musket.

The Koreans were armed with severely outdated weapons, such as matchlock muskets.

He'd seen matchlock muskets in plenty, of course.

By 1600 armies phased out these firearms in favour of a new lighter matchlock musket.

The Japanese borrowed - and improved on - the foreigners' matchlock muskets, even if they rarely accepted their preaching.

They were armed with flintlock "snaphaunces" rather than the matchlock muskets carried by the infantry.

On top of that, the Jacobite infantry who actually had firearms were all equipped with the obsolete matchlock musket.

To one side of them stood one of their guards, holding a matchlock musket under one arm.

A matchlock musket did extraordinarily well to fire one shot in a minute, far less the four rounds a minute the Marines were managing.

The forces employed at Breitenfeld on both sides used mostly one type of light infantry, musketeers armed with matchlock muskets.

The falconet resembled an oversized matchlock musket with two wheels attached to improve mobility.

Some genius in the machine-shop altered a matchlock musket to flintlock and showed the local gunsmiths how to do it.

In that war, the tactical superiority of the matchlock musket became apparent, despite its slow rate of fire and susceptibility to wet weather.

The famous Janissary corps of the Ottoman army began using matchlock muskets as early as the 1440s.

They wore a bandolier from which were suspended twelve wooden containers each with a ball and measured charge of powder for their matchlock muskets.

For the rest, perhaps two hundred wagoners were left, armed with a miscellany of pole-arms, hangers, and elderly matchlock muskets.

Once the forlorn hope established a foothold in the enemy position, the infantry followed them with their more cumbersome pikes and matchlock muskets.

About half carried bows and quivers, while the other half carried long matchlock muskets and powder horns.

It replaced the matchlock musket that was common in early years due to its increased reliability and ability to be fired without the use of an external flame.

The 16th century saw the first widespread use of the matchlock musket as a decisive weapon on the battlefield with the Turks becoming leaders in this regard.

At first the Englishmen panicked, but Standish calmed them, urging the settlers not to fire their matchlock muskets unnecessarily.

The Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus had many matchlock muskets converted to snaplocks during his military reforms.