Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 404
ns 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 should have had at… … 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 littlecylindrical boxes or…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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