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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