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unusual facts about flintlock



Cookson repeater

The Cookson flintlock rifle, a lever-action breech-loading repeater, is one of many similar designs to make an appearance on the world stage beginning in the 17th century.

Firearms unit

Despite this, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel gave the Commissioner authorisation to purchase fifty flintlock pocket pistols for use in exceptional circumstances.

Harper's Ferry Model 1805

The model 1805 U.S. Martial "Harper's Ferry" flintlock pistol, manufactured at the Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia (now West Virginia), was the first pistol manufactured by a national armory.

Mike Holoway

He was the drummer and percussionist in Flintlock and at the same time became an actor, notably in the cult TV series The Tomorrow People .

Military of the Swedish Empire

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.

Naomi Novik

Novik's first novel, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire in the UK), which commences the Temeraire series, is an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars in a "Flintlock Fantasy" world in which dragons are abundant and are used in aerial combat.

Nauvoo Legion

This flintlock musket was an American built copy of the French 1777 Charleville musket.

REME Museum of Technology

A large collection of weapons dating from a 16th-century Flintlock Musket to modern SA80's currently used by the British Army.


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