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A type of a gun.
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What types of gun were made in the 1700s?
Matchlocks and wheellocks
What weapons did Japan use during the 1700s?
Teppo matchlocks, or imported flintlocks.
What type of musket is older than the flintlock musket?
There were matchlocks before flintlocks. They used a slow burning string, something like a fuse. The "hammer" held this in a clamp and when the trigger was pulled the lit "match" touched the priming powder in the pan (with any luck) firing the gun.
What does matchlocks look like?
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.
What do matchlocks look like?
A Japanese matchlock rifle 28 bore. Signed barrel round with aiming flat on top, 75cm, overall length 108cm. All brass furniture. Fully stocked. Japanese type flower inleted near flash pan. I got this answer off the internet. Go to http://www.henrykrank.com/mfsr122.html
What is the purpose of a flint striker?
To make sparks, such as to catch 'tinder' aflame to start a fire. Flints were also used in old muskets and rifles (called flintlocks) to ignite gunpowder and fire the weapon. Before flintlocks were matchlocks, that used a little bit of burning rope in ther mechanism. After flintlocks were caplocks, that used a small 'cap' easily ignited when struck.
Was matches around during World War 2?
Yes, and during World War 1, and lighters were also around for both world wars. Actually, matches have been around for a very long time. They were used to light cannons and early firearms called matchlocks. They had to be lit from a fire, however, and self-striking matches were not invented until the 19th Century.
What supplies did Columbus take on his first voyage?
Columbus only brought the necessities on his voyages. He brought along plenty of food like meat, fish and cheese, water, tools for navigation like maps, rulers and compasses, and items used for trade like jewelry and spices.
What type of weapons did Christopher Columbus have?
Yes, But not in the way you are thinking. The Spanish may have had some Arquebus matchlocks, a very early version of a musket, but Swords and Crossbows were still the go to weapon for serious combat. Even without the firepower, Europeanadvancesin armor and metal forging would make a well armored Spanish Knight more then a match for any Native fighter..In 1492 firearms were not wide spread yet. While Cannons were starting to be commonplace on Ships, Musketeers did not become common place on the ground until the 1500s (16th Century). It was not simply a switch to firearms. Both Swords and Muskets co-existedfor several Centuries before the technology improved - mainly the invention of theBayonet-combining the two.Most people associate the Musketbearing English that followed in Columbus's footsteps years later with theimageryofthe stereotypicalEuropean Explorer. Which is where the common misconception comes from.Source:http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/theconquest/a/09armsconquest.htm
Where did the rifle musket come from?
Originally muskets were long barrelled smoothbore firearms that were used in volley fire arrangement and became a feature of formal combat in the 16th century. At first they were matchlocks (used extensively in the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War). In the early 18th century muskets incorporated flintlocks and were used in many conflicts, including the Jacobite War (1745), the American Revolution (1776) and the Napoleonic Wars (1798-1815). The Rifle Musket first saw it's appearance in America during the Mexican War when they were issued to Mississippi regiments under the command of Col. Jefferson Davis. These differed from conventional muskets in that they were rifled and extremely accurate and effective. The invention of the conical bullet (Minie ball) in the early 1850's made rifled muskets easier to load and smoothbore muskets became obsolete. Springfield and Harpers Ferry Armory were making these weapons before the Civil War and Great Britain also began the manufacture of excellent rifled muskets (Endfield 1858). Rifled Muskets were the primary weapon of the American War of Rebellion (Civil War)
What is a light flintlock musket called?
A flintlock firearm uses a springloaded hammer with a flint attached to strike against a hinged steel plate in order to shower sparks into a shallow pan filled with a small amount of black powder in order to ignite (shoot) a weapon. They were originally invented in Germany in the middle 1600's and were the standard military weapon (musket) from that time until about 1830 when they were replaced by the percussion Cap system. The flintlock musket is the weapon prominent in the American Revolution and the Napoloenic Wars. Usually loaded through the muzzle with tha aid of a ramrod, a slow and cumbersome process.
What impact did colonization have on the Aztecs?
Disastrous- the Aztec and Inca peoples were first colonised by the Spanish, the first expeditionary force being led by conquistadore Herman Cortes. The Aztecs were astonished by the Westerners, their ships and their guns- even by their cavalry, as they themselves never used horses for riding and thought that a horseman was half-man, half beast! The Aztec King Montezuma believed Cortes to be the incarnation of their god Quetzaloatl, whom his astrologers and priests had foretold would arrive from the East, 'dark-skinned and in a strange vehicle'. Montezuma and the Aztec race thus worshipped the Spaniards as living deities, affording them every hospitality and showering them with rich gifts. Cortes returned to Spain laden with Aztec gold, but once the Spanish Government realised what wealth there was to be had from the Inca lands, they sent large military taskforces to overrun and conquer the people. The poor Aztecs couldn't believe that their former friends and heroes were turning against them- often being too astonished to retaliate, they were slaughtered in their thousands. Others fought back bravely, but their spears and archers were no match for the Spanish cannon and matchlocks, and many Aztec and Inca tribes were all but annihilated (even when using captured Spanish guns). Others fled Northwards to re-settle in Southern Mexico, where for a while they were unmolested, but as the Americas became colonised in the following decades many interbred with South American Spanish, until in the end their gene pool was very diluted and the pure Aztec race was all but gone. Some Latin American tribes are able to claim more direct descent from the aztecs than other South American peoples, most especially those from the Central nations of Peru and Bolivia.
