Musket Research Paper

REsearch notes http://www.americanrevolution.org/artillery.php The word cannon comes from the Latin root canna, or reed (shades of the fire lance!) The word canon (Latin for "statute" or "law") was used in Italy as early as the 14th century to describe a cannon. "Ordnance" comes from ordinance, a Latin synonym ofcanon. Gallopers were among the first attempts to give some degree of mobility to guns, which had been, for centuries, a stationary weapon. http://revolutionarywarantiques.com/Revolutionary-War-Muskets American colonists were barely 12 years removed from the French and Indian wars (1754-1763), but close enough to a new conflict to begin thinking about the necessity for building a store of weapons. Those who served in militias in that earlier war had furnished their own weapons. The guns would have been muskets, fowling pieces or no weapon at all. They brought and carried their own provisions. Although the musket would be carried over to the new war, some weapons had seen its zenith in the old conflict. The matchlock musket was obsolete by 1775, but still retained by some families as a useful, but cumbersome to fire, weapon.British military had always been a security blanket in the colonials’ lives. The Flintlock musket was one of the most important muskets that was made during the late 1700 's and

The main weapons that were used in this war were muzzle-loading rifles, and the pistols that had bayonets attached to them. Unfortunately a variety of Revolutionary War weapons were in very short supply. Because of this, many of the soldiers would bring their own Revolutionary War pistols and various other items from their own homes, to use them to fight with. It was also up to them to provide and carry other necessary items that were used - such as cartridge boxes, shot molds, and tinder