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A French blunderbuss, called an espingole, 1760, France Musketoon, blunderbuss and coach gun from the American Civil War era. The flared muzzle is the defining feature of the blunderbuss, differentiating it from large caliber carbines; the distinction between the blunderbuss and the musketoon is less distinct, as musketoons were also used to fire shot, and some had flared barrels.
Musketoons had a brass or iron barrel, and used a wheellock, flintlock or caplock [1] firing mechanism, like the typical musket of the period. They were fired from the shoulder like the musket, but the shorter length (barrels were as short as a foot (30 cm) long) made them easier to handle for those in restricted conditions, such as mounted infantry and naval boarding parties.
In the middle of the 17th century there were 1,660 dragoons in an army totaling 8,000 men. By the 18th century there were four regiments of dragoons. Lithuanian cavalrymen served in dragoon regiments of both the Russian and Prussian armies, after the Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth .
Still, the Brown Bess saw service until the middle of the nineteenth century. Most male citizens of the thirteen colonies of British America were required by law to own arms and ammunition for militia duty. [6] The Long Land Pattern was a common firearm in use by both sides in the American War of Independence. [7]
A dragon is a shortened version of blunderbuss, a firearm with a short, large caliber barrel which is flared at the muzzle and frequently throughout the entire bore. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dragons were typically issued to dragoon cavalry , who needed a lightweight, easily handled firearm to use while mounted.
While most of these guns used gravity to feed the balls into the drum, one specimen, from the Paris museum, used a spring to force them in. [3] Although other breech loading rifles were introduced in later years, the Cookson-type long arms were unique in their ability to fire multiple shots without reloading.
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Charleville muskets were also copied by Belgium, Austria and Prussia as the Augustin 1842 musket and Potzdam 1809 musket. In the 1830s and 1840s, many old Charleville muskets (mostly later models) were converted from flintlocks to percussion locks. Several Dutch guns were even converted to breechloaders with the Snider breech-loading system in ...