The most extensive guide to French flintlock military long arms ever to appear in English. Concentrates on identification and service use, covering everything from Infantry Muskets, Rampart guns, Dragoon Muskets, Cavalry Musketoons, Constabulary Musketoons, Naval Muskets, Hussar Musketoons, Foot and Mounted Grenadier Muskets, Arms of the Mamelouks, lancers' Musketoons, Royal Muskets, Muskets of the Bodyguards and much more. This is the first of two volumes.
Soft cover volume of 136 pages, 11" x 8.5" format. 550 plus illustrations.
Table of Contents includes the following:
Soft cover volume of 136 pages, 11" x 8.5" format. 550 plus illustrations.
Table of Contents includes the following:
- Toward a National Army
- of Arms
- French Style Flintlock
- Chapter 1
- Musket of the 1717 Model
- Infantry Musket
- Rampart Gun
- Chapter 2
- Guns of the 1728 Model and their Derivatives (Models 1733-34 and 1746)
- Infantry Model Musket 1728
- Rampart Model 1728
- Arms for Mounted Troops
- Cavalry Musket Model 1733-34
- Infantry Musket Model 1746
- Chapter 3
- Guns of the 1754 Model
- Infantry Model Musket 1754
- Infantry Officer's Model Musket 1754
- Dragoon Musket Model 1754
- Dragoon Officer's Musket Model 1754
- Chapter 4
- Longarms of the Model 1763 (1763-66, 1767
- Infantry Model Musket 1763
- Infantry Model Musket 1766 or 763-66
- Dragoon Model Musket 1763
- Cavalry Musketoon Model 1766
- Hussar Musketoon Model 1767-70
- Longarms of the Model 1770
- Infantry Musket Model 1770-71
- Constabulary Musketoon Model 1770
- Artillery Musketoon Model 1770
- Cavalry Musketoon Model 1770 or 1776-70 Second Production
- Chapter 5
- Longarms of the Model 1763 and 1774
- Infantry Model Musket 1773
- Infantry Model Musket 1774
- Dragoon Musket Model 1766-70 (or Second Production)
- Muskets and Musketoons of the Maison du Roi (King's Household)
- Chapter 6
- Longarms of the Model 1777 and their Derivatives
- Infantry Musket Model 1777
- Dragoon Musket Model 1777
- Artillery Musket Model 1777
- Cavalry Musketoon Model 1777
- Hussar Musketoon Model 1777
- Arms for the Navy and the Colonies
- Naval Musket Model 1777
- Naval Personnel Musket Model 1779-1786
- Onboard Musket Model 1779-1786
- Colonial Troop Musket Model 1779-1786
- Onboard Musketoon Model 1779-1786
- Revolutionary Arms
- Chapter 7
- Longarms of the "Model 1777 Corrige and IX"
- Infantry Musket Model 1777 Corrige and IX
- Dragoon Musket Model 1777 Corrige and IX
- Naval Musket Model 1777 Corrige and IX
- Cavalry Musketoon Model 1777 Corrige and IX
- Hussar Musketoon Musket Model 1786 Corrige and IX
- Artillery Musketoon Model 1829
- Gendarmerie Musketoon
- Chapter 8
- Guns from the factory at Versailles
- Infantry Rifle Model 1793
- Cavalry Carbine Model 1793
- Infantry Rifle Model An XII
- Foot Grenadier's Musket of the Governmental Gurde du Directoire (Guard of the Directory)
- Mounted Grenadier Musketoon of the Gurde du Directoire (Guard of the Directory)
- Infantry Musket of the Gurde du Directoire (Consular Guard)
- Musketoon of the Mounted Grenadiers of the Consular Guard
- Arms of the Marnelouks
- Marnelouk Rifle
- Marnelouk Blunderbuss
- Presentation Longarms
- Presentation Muskets
- Presentation Musketoons
- Chapter 9
- Longarms of the Model 1816
- Grenadier Musket
- Light Infantry Musket
- Navy Musket
- Artillery Musket
- Cavalry Musketoon
- Chapter 10
- Longarms of the Model 1822
- Light Infantry Musket
- Navy Musket
- Grenadier Musket
- Gendarmerie Musketoon
- Artillery Musketoon Model 1829
- Cavalry Musketoon
- Lancer's Musketoon Model 1836
- Chapter 11
- Royal Arms
- Muskets of the Bodyguards -1st Model
- Muskets of the Bodyguards -2nd Model
- Musketeer's Musket
- Muskets of the Cent Susse (Hundred Swiss)
- Fusil de Recompense (Reward Guns)