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    armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier. The term arquebus is derived from the Dutch word Haakbus ("hook gun"). The term arquebus was applied to...
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    Java arquebus (Indonesian and Malaysian: Bedil Jawa) refers to long-barreled early firearm from the Nusantara archipelago, dating back to the early 16th...
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    Jiaozhi arquebus (Giao Chỉ arquebus or Vietnamese arquebus) refers to several types of gunpowder firearms produced historically in Vietnam. This page also...
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    Empire by 1425. This early arquebus was a hand cannon with a serpentine lever to hold matches. However this early arquebus did not have the matchlock...
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    weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour. By the mid-16th century, this type...
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  • common enemy, Balam and Arquebus resume hostilities and the three-way war between them and the RLF continues, though Arquebus quickly gains the upper...
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    "arquebus musket." A Habsburg commander in the mid-1560s once referred to muskets as "double arquebuses." A shoulder stock was added to the arquebus around...
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  • flamethrower Gunpowder firearms Arquebuses Arquebus Istinggar arquebus Java arquebus Jiaozhi arquebus Tanegashima arquebus Torador arquebus Blunderbuss Hand cannons...
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    gun barrels. In 1526, the Venetian Arsenal paid him 296 ducats for 185 arquebus barrels. The iron foundry and arms business was continued and developed...
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    continuously operating companies in the World. Its inaugural product was the arquebus barrel; by all accounts Beretta-made barrels equipped the Venetian fleet...
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    the name Empire Arquebus. She was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport and operated by Donaldson Bros & Black Ltd. Empire Arquebus was a member of...
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    company were usually issued with ranged weapons, such as a crossbow or an arquebus, and arranged in the wings of a square, in front of the pikemen. Likewise...
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    Firearm (section Arquebuses)
    the arquebus into a handheld firearm, and also first firearm equipped with a trigger. Heavy arquebuses mounted on war wagons were called arquebus a croc...
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    A culverin was initially an ancestor of the hand-held arquebus, but the term was later used to describe a type of medieval and Renaissance cannon. The...
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    in the archipelago already existed early long gun called bedil, or Java arquebus as the Chinese call it. Most of the specimens in the Malay Peninsula are...
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  • – c.1869) Arisaka Type 30 rifle (Empire of Japan – rifle – 1897/1899) Arquebus (Dutch – 15th century) Augustin Infantry Musket Model 1842 (Austrian Empire...
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    arquebus technology was the first to spark the interest of Ming officials for the Chinese to broaden their use of these weapons. Turkish arquebuses may...
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    to as an "arquebus musket." A Habsburg commander in the mid-1560s once referred to muskets as "double arquebuses." The definition of arquebus and similar...
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  • 500 light cavalry and 2,500 infantry, many of whom were equipped with arquebuses. Half of the infantry were also converts, while the other half were émigrés...
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    harquebusiers, tried various shorter, lightened versions of the infantry arquebus weapons – the first carbines. But these weapons were still difficult to...
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    calibrated to deliver the proper charge for the user's arquebus. With the advent of the heavy arquebus (later known as a musket) in the early 16th century...
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    Doppelsöldner ("double-pay men") renowned for their use of Zweihänder and arquebus. They formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire's Imperial Army from the...
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    17th century – early 20th century Country Mughal Empire Afsharid Iran Durrani Empire Dzungar Khanate Branch Cavalry Equipment arquebus musket artillery...
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    for Japan. At the height of the battle, Yi was hit by a bullet from an arquebus and died shortly thereafter. Chen Lin reported the news back to the Wanli...
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    formation combined soldiers armed with pikes and soldiers armed with arquebuses and/or muskets. Other weapons such as swords, halberds, and crossbows...
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    In 15th century Europe, the hand cannon evolved to become the matchlock arquebus, which became the first firearm to have a trigger. The earliest artistic...
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    The Battle of Pavia in 1525. Landsknecht mercenaries with arquebus....
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    combat weapons: javelins, slings, blowguns, bows, crossbows, hand cannons, arquebuses, muskets, grenades, flamethrowers. Melee combat weapons: bludgeoning weapons...
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    Tanegashima, becoming the first Europeans to arrive in Japan, and introduce the arquebus into Japanese warfare 1546 Siege of Kawagoe Castle: Hojo Ujiyasu defeats...
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    Southeast Asia, the natives already possessed primitive firearms, the Java arquebus. Portuguese influence to local weaponry after the capture of Malacca (1511)...
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