At the time of Miles Standish, the standard firearm was a large caliber matchlock musket. This used a slow smoldering length of cord (the match) to ignite a powder charge, and was replaced by the flintlock. This is a link to an article on the matchlock musket- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchlock
As a very rough guide you had the pike, the matchlock musket, the sword and the cannon.
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As a very rough guide you had the pike, the matchlock musket, the sword and the cannon.
A musket typically had a long barrel, a wooden stock, and a matchlock or flintlock mechanism to ignite the gunpowder. It was a heavy and cumbersome firearm used in the 16th to 19th centuries.
yes <>><><> "Tudor" refers to the time between 1485 and 1603. And yes, there were somewhat primitive guns in existence- typically the matchlock musket.
Early black powder large caliber smooth bore musket. IIRC, muzzle is slightly funnel shaped to assist loading.
Williamite weapons: -Flintlock musket -Flintlock pistol -Grenade -Pike (limited usage) -Swords -Bayonet Jacobite weapons: -Matchlock musket -Flintlock pistol -Pike -Swords -Various peasant weapons and farm tools.
They are muzzle loading muskets (long guns)- or rarely, pistols (short guns). Matchlock means that a slow match (a smoldering piece of thin cord) is pressed into the priming powder to make the gun fire. The link below is to a good photo of a typical matchlock musket.
They used matchlock muskets, a few wheel lock muskets, swords, pikes, and cannons.
The Matchlock Gun was created in 1941.
Matchlock rifle, Brown Bess musket, Kentucky rifle, Springfield rifled musket, Dreyse 'Needle Gun', Mauser rifle, Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle, Stg. 44/MP43, Maxim machine gun, MG34 and MG42, FN FAL, FN MAG, AK-47 and AKM.