Both the Hakkapeliittas and the common "gallop cavalry" were armed with broadswords, and as mentioned above the gallop cavalrymen were also equipped with one flintlock carbine and two flintlock pistols.
Loyalists, mostly Scottish Highlanders, many of whom did not have muskets and were wielding broadswords, expected to find only a small Patriot force on February 27, 1776.
The Broadsword and the Beast is the 14th studio album by Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1982 (see 1982 in music) and according to Ian Anderson in the liner notes of the remastered CD, contains some of Jethro Tull's best music.