derived from the 17th-century French word fusil – meaning a type of flintlock musket – the term has been used in contrasting ways in different countries and...

prestigious Sudler Trophy in 1997. The Mountaineer mascot carries a period Musket and powder horn for firing a shot to signal the opening of several athletic...

consequence the heavy musket as well. Although there is relatively little to no difference in design between arquebus and musket except in size and strength...

reflective prism for its image-erecting system, instead of the series of relay lenses found in traditional telescopic sights. The use of prisms makes it...

opened, knocked down the door itself, hit the fortress with the butt of the musket to the head making it fall to the ground unconscious, then she was carried...

in front of Wolfe are his musket, cartridge box and bayonet. Wolfe went into battle armed as his men were, but his musket was of higher quality. His...

armed with smooth-bore muskets that had an effective range of aimed fire of only 80–100 yards (75–90 m), although the musket ball could have serious...

The battle began with the usual discharge of artillery, rockets, and muskets at long range. The distance gradually decreased, as Aurangzeb's army advanced...

listens unmoved by Starbuck's report. Starbuck refuses to leave. Ahab grabs a musket and orders Starbuck to his knees. Greenhorn shouts that Pip has been sighted...

The battle began with the usual discharge of artillery, rockets, and muskets at long range. The distance gradually decreased, as Aurangzeb's army advanced...

December 7, 2009 (2009-12-07) Items appraised include an 1845 Harpers Ferry musket; a quilt covered with hundreds of celebrity signatures; an ice marker and...

giving commands. Suddenly, Nelson drops to his knees, struck down by a musket ball shot by a sniper aboard the adjacent French warship Redoubtable. Mortally...

building of an even larger ship with 62 guns and placements for over 400 musket men. It was named Ganj-i-Sawai, and it was in its day the most fearsome...

Korean officials and Korean sword show that musket alone could not ensure victory. By employing both musket and arme blanche ("White Weapons"i.e. metal...

and uncover an arsenal of antique weapons: Civil War-era black powder muskets, ceremonial Masonic swords, a samurai sword, and a polygraph machine to...

recaptured the island for the British Crown with just 220 men and 150 muskets to face a force of 600 trained soldiers. Lord Dunmore governed the colony...

weapons and were fired at point blank range to accompany engagement with muskets or bows. In the 1470s, the Portuguese and Venetian navies were experimenting...

only; as by Bells, by Trumpets, by Lights and Torches, by the report of Muskets, and any instruments of like nature". George Boole published a paper in...

Gastown include the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and the Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix international bicycle race. In June 2004, Storyeum opened...

London by the King's Royal Guard. Just as one of the soldiers aims his musket at Jack, he is shot in the back by Teague. Later, inside the Captain's Daughter...

Indochina War. The Vietnam National Army, mostly armed with machetes and muskets immediately attacked. They assaulted the French positions, smoking them...

firearm that could load and fire more rapidly, resulting in the flintlock musket (and later the Baker rifle), in which the pan was covered by furrowed steel...

New England to Georgia. Each of those cutters was to be armed with ten muskets and bayonets, twenty pistols, two chisels, one broad-ax and two lanterns...

only; as by Bells, by Trumpets, by Lights and Torches, by the report of Muskets, and any instruments of like nature". (See Bacon's cipher.) In 1617, John...

Witnesses later testified that Muspratt was armed during the take-over with a musket, which he never used nor fired. The mutineer left the Bounty when it again...

century in China, Zhao Shi-zhen invented the Xun Lei Chong, a five-barreled musket revolver spear. Around the same time, the earliest examples of the modern...

infantry were armed with smoothbore muskets from the Revolutionary War, mostly 1763 or 1777 models of the Charleville musket. They were trained to fire a paper...

"riddled with racial and ethnic epithets". The production included antique muskets as props and featured the Windham Community Orchestra as well as choreography...

years old, of Company C, Mosby's Virginia Cavalry Regiment with flintlock musket Allan C. Redwood (b.1844) served 55th Virginia Infantry Walter Mackenzie...

The Afghan army emphasized cavalry, while their infantry were armed with muskets. One of his military reforms included dividing his army into divisions...