Piercy, Willis Duff · New York, Charles E. Merrill company · leaf 123
he breast and letting the barrel rest on afork fastened to the saddle. The gun was dischargedby applying a lighted match to a touch-hole in thetop of the barrel. One kind of powder was usedfor priming; another for firing. Before the inven-tion of cartridges, the powder and bullets wereloaded… … Musketeer and Pikeman of theEarly Seventeenth Century 122 INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES with his sword. About the middle of the seventeenthcentury^ the bayonet was invented^ taking its namefrom the town of Bayonne, in France, where the in-ventor Hved. The hghted match which soldiers originally…
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