Weapon Type
Blackpowder
Muzzleloading black powder firearms
Battles & Operations
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Battle of Cowpens (17 January 1781)
The Battle of Cowpens, fought on 17 January 1781 at a frontier pasture near the North Carolina border of South Carolina, was one of the… Continued…
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Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)
The Battle of Waterloo, fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near the village of Waterloo in present-day Belgium, ended the Napoleonic Wars.… Continued…
Weapons
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Arquebus
The arquebus was the first practical infantry firearm, a matchlock long gun light enough to be fired from the shoulder or chest without a… Continued…
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Baker Rifle
The Baker rifle was the first rifle officially adopted by the British Army, the weapon of the green-jacketed 95th Rifles and the rifle… Continued…
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Blunderbuss
The blunderbuss was a short, large-bore, muzzle-loading gun with a flared muzzle, built to fire a handful of shot at very close range. From… Continued…
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Bombard
A bombard was a large, short-ranged cannon of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries that fired heavy stone balls against castle and town… Continued…
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Charleville Musket
'Charleville' is the collector's name — taken from the great arsenal in the Ardennes — for the French service flintlock muskets of the… Continued…
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Colt 1851 Navy Revolver
The Colt 1851 Navy is the revolver that made Samuel Colt's fortune and the revolver of the American frontier and Civil War: a .36-caliber… Continued…
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Colt 1860 Army
The Colt 1860 Army was the principal revolver of the Union cavalry in the American Civil War: a six-shot .44 caliber percussion revolver… Continued…
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Culverin
The culverin was a long-barreled muzzle-loading gun of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Compared with the heavier 'cannon' class it… Continued…
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Ferguson Rifle
The Ferguson rifle was a breech-loading flintlock rifle designed by Captain Patrick Ferguson of the British Army and patented in 1776. A… Continued…
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Grasshopper Cannon
The grasshopper was a light British 3-pounder field gun of the later eighteenth century, a short bronze barrel on a small carriage that… Continued…
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Hawken Rifle
The Hawken rifle was the heavy half-stocked 'plains rifle' made in St. Louis by the brothers Jacob and Samuel Hawken from the 1820s, and… Continued…
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Janissary Tüfek
The tüfek, the Turkish word for a gun, was the long-barreled musket carried by the Janissaries, the elite infantry of the Ottoman Empire.… Continued…
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Jäger Rifle
The Jäger rifle was the short, heavy-barreled flintlock hunting rifle of the German lands, carried in war by the light troops called Jäger… Continued…
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Kentucky Long Rifle
The Kentucky long rifle was the long-barreled, small-caliber flintlock rifle developed by German gunsmiths in Pennsylvania in the… Continued…
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Kentucky Pistol
The Kentucky pistol is the handgun counterpart of the Kentucky long rifle: a single-shot flintlock pistol made by the same Pennsylvania and… Continued…
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Light Dragoon Pistol
The Light Dragoon pistol was the British Army's flintlock cavalry pistol of the later eighteenth century. Introduced around 1759 for the… Continued…
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Model 1845 musket
The Model 1845 was the standard infantry musket of the Russian army in the Crimean War. A 7-line (17.8 mm) smoothbore fired by a percussion… Continued…
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Napoleon 12-Pounder
The 12-pounder Napoleon was the most common field gun of the American Civil War: a bronze smoothbore gun-howitzer of 4.62-inch bore… Continued…
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Pattern 1853 Enfield
The Pattern 1853 Enfield was the British Army's .577 caliber percussion rifle-musket, adopted in 1853 and made at the Royal Small Arms… Continued…
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Remington 1858 New Model Army
The Remington New Model Army was the second great Union revolver of the American Civil War: a six-shot .44 caliber percussion revolver… Continued…
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Sea Service Pistol
The Sea Service pistol was the Royal Navy's standard sidearm through the age of sail: a heavy, plain, single-shot flintlock with a brass… Continued…
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Siege Mortar
A siege mortar was a short, wide-mouthed cannon that fired at a high angle, so that its projectile rose over walls and earthworks and fell… Continued…
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Springfield Model 1842
The Springfield Model 1842 was the United States Army's first regulation percussion musket and the last of its .69 caliber smoothbores.… Continued…
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Swivel Gun
The swivel gun was a small cannon mounted on a forked iron yoke that pivoted in a socket on a ship's rail, fighting top or boat bow, so… Continued…
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Tanegashima
Tanegashima is the Japanese name for the matchlock arquebus, taken from the island of Tanegashima where, by the traditional account… Continued…