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Weapons Of the 18th Century
By: Me
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Flintlock Musket• Replaced some previous designs such as the matchlock, a gun with a slow burning fuse and an
early trigger to ignite the gunpowder.• Used a metal striker to hit a piece of flint rock against metal to cause a spark.• Sometimes unreliable because flint is easily broken and is hard to use to make sparks when it
is wet.• Took as long as half a minute to prepare for another shot• The standard weapon of infantry during the Revolutionary War.• Later replaced by more reliable percussion cap.
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Rifle• Surprisingly were not the
weapon of choice• Took much longer to load than
a conventional musket.• Modified rifles are still in use
today• Rifle- What makes them a
“rifle” is the rifling or spiraling inside the barrel, causing the bullet to spiral much like a football, drastically increasing the accuracy.
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Bayonet
• Bayonet- In short, a bayonet is a knife stuck on the barrel of a gun so you could use you gun like a spear.
• Original bayonets were mounted inside the barrel but were soon replaced with more advanced side mounted designs.
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Cannons• Cannons were very hard to
load• They took between 7 to 14
people to operate• Would fire almost anything
you could put down the barrel but worked best with cannonballs.
• Could be used to destroy ships with large cannonballs or to kill infantry in the same way a shotgun would.
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Submarine• Called the turtle, it was
basically a hollow sphere that someone rode in to attach explosives to the hull of a ship.
• The turtle did sail (if you could say “sail”) but failed to get the explosives attached to the hull of the ship.
• Only saw one mission because it was lost when the ship transporting it was sunk.
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Bullets
• Soldiers actually cast their own ammunition.• Used molds to cast bullets• Poured molten lead into a mold, let cool, and
then removed to use in combat
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Credits
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchlock
http://military.discovery.com/history/revolutionary-war/weapons/weapons.html
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