Muskets
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On reaching the top he saw at the foot of it over two hundred men, as it seemed to him, armed with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes, and a few
muskets
and a great many bucklers.
More example sentences with word muskets
If that Martian looked at battlefields, they would find that people had only
muskets
at the time of the Civil War and that they had repeating rifles at the time of the Spanish-American War, and then they had machine guns by the time of World War I. And, in other words, it was the equipment that was in the hands of the average soldier that was responsible, not greater keenness of eye or steadiness of hand.
At the end of the Civil War, they were shooting each other with
muskets.
I'd seen it described variously as 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Muskets'
and 'Reservoir Fops', both of which are excellent descriptions.
The guns were like Revolutionary War
muskets
and I got a kick out of that as well.
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