What is "muskets"

Usage examples of "muskets".

Instead the muskets fired, hurling attackers back into the faces of the men who advanced behind.

The horsemen had short-barrelled muskets thrust into bucket holsters on their saddles.

The Prussian infantry levelled their muskets over the furniture barricade.

But at fifty yards the French muskets were almost as accurate as the Baker rifle.

The French skirmishers cheered their victory over the panicked gun teams, then turned their muskets on the nearest Belgian battalions.

His men made a litter of muskets and blankets and carried him back to the surgeons who had set up for business in the barn by the crossroads.

A horse would not charge a formed square with its four ranks bristling with muskets spitting fire and bright with bayonets.

One by one the squibbed muskets banged, their sound echoing forlornly across the shallow valley.

It was the sound of thousands of men talking, the sound of damp twigs burning, the noise of squibbed muskets popping, and the sound of the wind rustling in the stiff damp stalks of rye.

The crackle of the muskets was incessant, drowning the cannon-fire from the ridge beyond.

Harper picked up one of the French muskets and lunged with its bayonet to finish the Sergeant.

The Guards reloaded with grim speed, propping their ramrods against the hedge before levelling the heavy muskets and blasting at the smoke-obscured enemy.

The muskets made a heavier coughing sound than the sharper crack of the rifles.

Yet the French were not fools, and enough of them had fought against British muskets to know that the old way had never worked against the red-coated lines.

The men in the centre raised their bayonet-tipped muskets as they cheered their hero.