How Civil War Soldiers used a Matchlock Musket
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- During the British Civil Wars, muskets became an important part of the infantry on both sides of the conflict. They packed a heavy punch, and made wearing armour increasingly useless. But how were they used? Watch as Cromwell Museum volunteer David demonstrates how to use a matchlock musket.
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Wouldn't the wadding need to go on top of the ball to hold it in?
Nope. On the bottom. If it's large enough it can cover the sides of the ball.
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The demonstration is inaccurate. The English did not prime their musket first, they loaded the main charge first. Per William Garrard, “let him ever first load his peece with powder out of his flaske, then with her [sic] bullet, and last with amuring and touch-powder.” [ _The Arte of Warre_ by William Garrard, published posthumously by Captain Robert Hichcock, 1591, p. 3, which was copied verbatim in _England's Trainings and plainly demonstrating the dutie of a private souldier, with the office of each severall officer belonging to a foot company, and the martiall lawes of the field ; as also the office and charge of a colonell ; the exercise of trayning or drilling : with diverse other necessary and profitable disciplined notes and observations_ , by Edward Davies, gentleman, 1619, from _Military Antiques Respecting a History of the English Army_ by Francis Grose Esq., London, 1801, p. 122.]
I don't think you did fire that musket at the end...