Muskets in example sentence

It appears the conquerors had something else to do.""Well?""Well, we shall find their muskets, their cartridges, and their flasks; and instead of four musketoons and twelve balls, we shall have fifteen guns and a hundred charges to fire.""Oh, Athos!" said Aramis, "truly you are a great man."

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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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