A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour. [1]

Nov 20, 2025 · musket, muzzle-loading shoulder firearm, evolved in 16th-century Spain as a larger version of the harquebus. It was replaced in the mid-19th century by the breechloading …

A soldier's musket, if not exceedingly ill-bored (as many of them are), will strike the figure of a man at eighty yards; it may even at 100; but a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who …

As the practice of rifling firearms—incising the barrel with spiral grooves to improve the bullet's accuracy—became more common, the term musket gradually gave way to the newer word …

The primary infantry firearm for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War was the French-made Charleville Musket, first supplied to American forces in 1777.

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The British Short Land Pattern Musket was the standard arm of the British infantry soldier during the American Revolution. The muzzle-loading musket was slow to load, inaccurate, and often …

A musket is a type of firearm that was designed as a long gun and was primarily used from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Typically, muskets were smoothbore weapons, meaning they …

A musket is generally a smoothbore firearm, while a rifle has grooves (rifling) inside the barrel that impart spin to the projectile, increasing accuracy. Muskets were designed for mass infantry …

The national armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, produced its first musket in 1800, and continued to turn them out until 1814. The musket illustrated above was made at Harpers Ferry in 1801.