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Example sentences for: muskets

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The smooth-bore muskets used during colonial, revolutionary, and frontier days were known as Brown Besses, hence the nickname Betsy .
Although swords, bows, and arrows remained the mainstays of warfare, suddenly matchlocks, muskets, and cannons made their appearance.
In summertime, you can watch troops parading in the British Army’s famous scarlet uniforms, performing bayonet drills and firing their muskets.
In truth, though, flash in the pan refers to the occasional misfiring of the old flintlock muskets when the flash of the primer in the pan of the rifle failed to ignite the explosion of the charge.
The sailors’ first landfall was on the little offshore island of Tanegashima, which has progressed from matchlocks and muskets to being Japan’s principal rocket-launching center.