Musket, Qing-Dynasty China, 19th century AD
Silver-inlaid musket, Southern Arabia, 1885 AD

What I can only assume is a crazy #Maga lady, is behind me on the #amtrak, reading a #story with a remarkably detailed description of how to clean and load a #musket, out loud to a 5 year old girl

Please send help

Bluesky

Bluesky Social
16th century, Native Americans would not have had their own manufactured guns, but if they did acquire firearms, they would most likely have been a type of "arquebus," a early matchlock #musket that was the prevalent firearm of the time, usually obtained through trade or conflict with European colonizers.
Key points about this "Native American 16th century gun":
Type:
Primarily an arquebus, which was a heavy, smoothbore, muzzle-loaded gun that required a match to ignite

Letโ€™s start a serie of toots about: War in #Napoleonic times.
Napoleonic tactics are characterized by intense drilling of the #soldiers ; speedy #battlefield movement; combined arms assaults; and a relatively small numbers of cannon, short-range #musket fire and #bayonet charges.
TREATY OF EXERCISE AND MANEUVERS OF THE INFANTRY. MADRID, 1808

#histodon #histodons #historia #archaeology #militaryhistory #war #conflictarchaeology @militaryhistory @histodons @bookstodon

@isoglosse
One of my favorite examples like this is of the words musket and mosquito. Both descend from the idea of a little flying thing (in the case of the musket it was the type of bullet used). Blew my mind when I found out they were basically the same word, just via different paths through French and Spanish.
#etymology #words #mosquito #musket