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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 402

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Two Cuts from Directions for Musters, 1638. pike-drill was comparatively simple, but the drill ofmusketeers was complicated by the necessary useof the gun-rest. If you will consider a momentthe difficulty of holding a heavy musket, of load-ing it, of aiming and firing it, you will see that asoldier… … Armor, Arms, and Uniforms 687 Among the unusual arms was the partisan, agreat pike or spontoon. It had a broad crescent-shaped blade. A halberdwas a long-staffed axe;a snaphance was a fire-lock musket. A bando-leer is here given. Itwas a shoulder-belt bear-ing bullet-bag, priming-box, and a row of…

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