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Weapons Used In The Civil War?

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  Posted by GOD I NEED HELP! (U2407016) on Saturday, 5th November 2005

  hey everyone i need some help with some history h/wk. i need to no some weapons used in the civil war. if anyone knows any please lket me no!

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  Posted by GOD I NEED HELP! (U2407016) on Saturday, 5th November 2005

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  Posted by GOD I NEED HELP! (U2407016) on Saturday, 5th November 2005

  Hey guys no1 has replied but oh well... if anyone has the same problem! check out! the link below thanks guys!
  
  

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  Posted by TonyG (U1830405) on Saturday, 5th November 2005

  Welcome to Net Time where no reply within 20 minutes seems ages.
  
  Which civil war do you mean?

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  Posted by DaveMBA (U1360771) on Saturday, 5th November 2005

  Try the Sealed Knot and National Armouries websites. IF you have a few days, then get hold of a few Osprey Military Publishing Men-At-Arms books.

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  Posted by Anglo-Norman (U1965016) on Saturday, 5th November 2005

  Are we talking about the English Civil War? (if so, you study it at school - luck whatsit! We got stuck with the Tudors!)
  
  INFANTRY:
  PIKEMEN: Pikes - a type of spear - in England typically 16 foot long, made of ash, with a steel head.
  MUSKETEERS: Matchlock muskets known as 'hackbutts'. Fired a one ounce spherical bullet, with an effective range of approximately 50 yards.
  
  Common to both were short, cheap swords known as hangers or pattern swords (because they were made to a standard pattern).
  
  CAVALRY: Long double-edged swords called 'tucks', 'broadswords' or 'mortuary swords' (the last because the guard was often decorated with an image of a head, popularly but wrongly thought to be in commemoration of Charles I) or single-edged swords called backswords. At least one pair of pistols - Parliamentarians had better access to English armouries, such as at the Tower of London, so were usually equipped with flintlock weapons. The Royalists had to import most of their weapons from the Continent, and most of those were old-fashioned wheelocks. In some cases short-barrelled carbines (again, Parliamentarians had mainly flintlocks, Royalists mainly wheeelocks).
  
  DRAGOONS: (mounted infantry): Flintlock muskets (though the Royalists often had to use matchlocks) and cavalry swords, sometimes pistols.
  
  SCOTTISH TROOPS: Covenanters were equipped much like English troops, although some of their cavalry also used lances. Royalist Highlanders often used traditional weapons like the claymore, Highland Broadsword and the small shield known as the targe.
  
  ARTILLERY: Cannon of various sizes, firing shot of half a pound up, the most common being the Saker (5 and a quarter pounder). For sieges, heavy guns like the demi-cannon, and sometimes mortars (which fired explosive shells of up to 15 inches in diameter i.e. much larger weapons than the modern mortar).
  
  For more info I thoroughly recommend this website:
  

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  Posted by Anglo-Norman (U1965016) on Saturday, 5th November 2005

  I would also add, in common with DaveMBA, try Osprey's books - the Men-At-Arms series ('English Civil War Armies', 'The New Model Army' and 'Scots Armies of the English Civil War', but even better 'Soldiers of the English Civil War 1: Infantry', and '2: Cavalry', their Warrior volume 'Ironsides: English Cavalrymen 1588-1688' (which in spite of the dates is mainly about the Civil War), and the New Vanguard volume 'English Civil War Artillery'.

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