Musket

my room after dinner. I kept imagining in my head me reloading a gun. I poured gunpowder into a measure. I poured the powder charge down the barrel of the musket. I took a lead ball a shoved it down the barrel until it touched the powder charge. I took a different powder and a different powder horn and poured the powder down the pa of the musket. The hammer was pulled back and the frizzle was closed, so it was ready to fire. I shot a Brit, then reloaded to shoot again. Eventually sleep overcame…

The Constitution should be interpreted literally and cannot change with society. Explain the topic and either agree or disagree with the statement, offering support to the argument. Saying that the constitution should be taken literally and that it cannot change with society is in my opinion unrealistic . When the constitution was written the world was a very different place than it is today so saying that it is to be taken literally and that it cannot change is very unrealistic. The problems…

tools that could create parts so closely resembling each other they could be substituted for one another without harm. In 1798, the United States government ordered 10,000 muskets, and in a preview of the assembly line, Whitney set his employees to work on manufacturing parts that were assembled bit by bit into muskets. A Whitney musket could be repaired in the field with spare parts. Gaspard Monge made his contribution while in Italy during the Napoleonic era. He took the principles of…

America’s European conquering of the Americas was made possible with the technological advances the Europeans had at the time of arriving in the New World. The Spaniards and Portuguese employed such resources as the use of the steel sword, armor, muskets and cannons against the native’s bows and arrows and wooden clubs. Use of the horse in battle gave the Europeans an advantage over the native’s since they feared the animal. European culture gave them an advantage since they recorded and passed…

The muskets were to be copies of the 1763 French Charleville model, of which the government gave 2 or 3 to each contractor to follow. When Whitney signed the contract he had no machines, no workers nothing. Whitney wrote "I am persuaded that machinery moved by…

year to get used to the game. Halfway into the school year our class had to do a project where we would pick a president to dress up as and tell their life story. My uncle made me a cardboard musket to bring in, which was pretty cool because it kinda looked real from a distance and I still have that musket 5 years later. When 5th grade started…

“I have long feared that my sins would return to haunt me, and the cost would be more than I could bear.” is a quote from the movie “The Patriot” starring Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin, Jason Isaacs as Travington, Heath Ledger as Gabriel Martin, and Joely Richardson as Charlotte. Directed by Roland Emmerich and produced by Dean Devlin. Distributed by Columbia Pictures in 2000 as CD format. The story takes place in South Carolina about one year into the American Revolution, 1776. A widower named…

Life during war times can be difficult and even heartbreaking. For Jemima Emerson from the novel, Time Enough For Drums, it was hard. But, the war managed to help her build her character. She has become a strong women to have these characteristics. To overcome the statement, Jemima is secretive, brave, and sassy. To begin with, Jemima Emerson has many characteristics to mention and one of them is that she was secretive. She never told her tutor, John Reid that she was not reading…

ingredient was passed on to other places,and so this (synonym.com)made cannons come to life, this made Europe destroy castle walls without any difficulty during war, it then later led to castles being useless, and which then later led to the invention of muskets and handguns. You're all probably wondering How did gunpowder come to life? It all came from two alchemists from…

the 1800s anymore, the 2nd Amendment needs to be amended to fit the current situation of America. Weapons such as assault rifles should not be available to the public. The 2nd Amendment was written in 1791. During this time, Americans only had muskets which took a long time to refill and they were hard to use. Now, in 2018, there are guns such as AK-47s that can fire 600 rounds per minute. They are easily accessible to the public. These weapons are being used to murder children. The only…