A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour. [1]

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musket, muzzle-loading shoulder firearm, evolved in 16th-century Spain as a larger version of the harquebus. It was replaced in the mid-19th century by the breechloading rifle.

As the practice of rifling firearms—incising the barrel with spiral grooves to improve the bullet's accuracy—became more common, the term musket gradually gave way to the newer word …

The musket emerged as a vital military tool in Europe during the 16th century, evolving from earlier hand cannons and arquebuses. Initially, these firearms were heavy and cumbersome, …

A soldier's musket, if not exceedingly ill-bored (as many of them are), will strike the figure of a man at eighty yards; it may even at 100; but a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who …

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A musket is a muzzleloading, smoothbore firearm, which is meant to be fired from the shoulder. The musket is the weapon that replaced the arquebus, and was then replaced by the rifle.