Description
Product ID: | 9781472810953 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Weapon |
Title: | The Flintlock Musket |
Subtitle: | Brown Bess and Charleville 1715–1865 |
Authors: | Author: Stuart Reid, Steve Noon, Alan Gilliland |
Page Count: | 80 |
Subjects: | History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History, Military history, Warfare and defence, Battles and campaigns, Weapons and equipment, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Military history, Warfare & defence, Battles & campaigns, Weapons & equipment, Europe, USA, c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Featuring artwork, this study examines the role that the flintlock played in close-order combat on European and other battlefields around the world. This book shows how tactical doctrines were successfully developed to overcome the weapon's inherent limitations, and more. The flintlock or firelock musket is one of the truly iconic weapons in history: first used on the battlefields of the Thirty Years'' War and the English Civil War, it was carried by both sides at Bunker Hill, Waterloo and the Alamo, and can truly be said to have dominated warfare for more than 150 years, until the advent of cartridge ammunition and breechloading weapons in the 1840s and 1850s and were still being widely used as late as the American Civil War in the 1860s. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-01-20 |