There are so many excellent firearms that the U.S. military has used throughout ... generation of both rifled muskets and ...

The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets used ... at the start of the Civil War, Spencer repeating guns were technically advanced, used cartridges (a recent ...

This extract is from a memoir by Laurie Lee, in which he describes arriving in Spain during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s ... walls like strings of onions, muskets and cartridge-belts ...