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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

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