Musket

Bullets whizzing by, horses neighing, men shouting, muskets firing. As a child I was never normal. While other kids read Percy Jackson, I read about George Washington. When others groaned about history, I squealed. When I was young I considered myself to be the biggest fan of the American Revolution. Though not for the reasons you might think. I did not care for the action, or drama, but rather, the moral dilemmas. It fascinated me that the creator of the phrase “All men are created equal” owned…

arrows, not bullets (Unsolved History, 2013). The Unsolved History group put the shield to the test, blasting it with a Spanish musket. With no hesitation, the bullet shot right through. When applying this to the Aztecan-Spanish conquest, Aztecan soldiers doubtlessly endured many fatalities from this scenario. However, as further attention transitions towards the musket, it is understood…

This was alleviated with gun powder from trade in China. Gunpowder led to the musket a weapon although rudimentary by modern standards could be given to an average farmer and he could be deadly to even a well armored knight. Cannons could knock down even the most impressive castles and greatly increase the danger of facing a European ship. As Europe fought the world as it explored the weapons kept improving. Muskets became rifles and the war machine in Europe rolled…

citing it as why the government should not regulate guns. They seem to have forgotten how far along technology has gone. When the second amendment was written, no one could have possibly imagined just how advanced guns would become. We went from muskets to automatic rifles, three shots a minute to thirty. Can we really trust everyone to carry a weapon with them with those capabilities? I believe that the majority of Americans can, and probably should, carry a weapon. It is the disturbed few that…

Liberty Leading the People and Guernica are two very famous paintings that display war in different subject matters. Liberty Leading the People is an artwork of the French Revolution by Eugene Delacroix. Guernica is by Pablo Picasso, and is about the bombing of the City of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The two paintings have similarities and differences portrayed in the artwork. The paintings have much symbolism and political messages about war. The paintings have many similarities and…

In April 1775, tensions were high the American Colonist and the British leaders were on the verge of war. For instance, Paul Revere made his famous midnight ride to warn two leaders of the Patriots John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British could arrest them any time. Soon after, Adams and Hancock took cover and hid in Lexington, about ten miles Boston. While hiding Adams and Hancock were reading to pounce like a cat on the British. Both men had artillery and were ready just as Revere…

been slain. Bodies lay in an almost pile with one specific man separated slightly with hands outstretched toward the bottom of the painting. Red has been painted under these bodies to represent their blood. In the middle of the painting pass the muskets is another group of people standing in terror…

Blackbeard, also identified as Edward Teach, was hunted down and killed off North Carolina’s Outer Banks during a battle with a British naval force sent from Virginia. In 1713, he commenced his “pirating career” when he became a crewman aboard a Caribbean ship ordered by Benjamin Hornigold. History claims that Blackbeard had as many as fourteen wives. Teach was said to be a native of England and in 1717 he captured and took over a French ship and improved its armament to forty guns, and renamed…

destroyed for the soldiers of WW1- hope. The machine gun, created in the time of industrialization, allowed rates of survival to plummet during the battle of the Somme comparative to the battle of Waterloo. At Waterloo, weapons primarily consisted of muskets and swords. Because of this, “Waterloo wounds… had been simple and single: penetrations or perforations… If the bleeding caused was not too severe… the patient’s chances of survival were better than we would expect”(Keegan 268). Most of…

The article Fourth generation operations: principles for the ‘Long War’ written by Michael J. Artelli and Richard F. Deckro is a fantastic article that goes over the ways in which strategies or war have changed over the years and have adapted and built off of each other to give armies a better advantage. This article specifically talks about the ways that the fourth generation of war operations came to be as well as how it is used today. The article does an excellent job of talking about the…