18th-century weapons

thumb|right|Muskets and bayonets aboard the [[frigate Grand Turk]]

thumb|An M4 carbine, a common AR-15–style carbine. The M4 is the shorter, lighter carbine variant of the [[M16 rifle.]]

thumb|right|upright=1.5|A "Brown Bess" muzzle-loading musket, used by the [[British Army from 1722 to 1838]] A muzzleloader is any firearm in which the user loads the projectile and the propellant charge into the muzzle end of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel). This is distinct from the modern designs of breech-loading firearms, in which user loads the ammunition into the breech end of the barrel. The term "muzzleloader" applies to both rifled and smoothbore type muzzleloaders, and may also refer to the marksman who specializes in the shooting of such firearms. The

thumb|upright=1.4|A flintlock blunderbuss, built for [[Tipu Sultan]] The blunderbuss is a 17th- to mid-19th-century firearm with a short, large caliber barrel. It is commonly flared at the muzzle to help aid in the loading of shot and other projectiles of relevant quantity or caliber. The blunderbuss is commonly considered to be an early predecessor of the modern shotgun, with similar military usage. It was effective only at short range, lacking accuracy at long distances. A blunderbuss in handgun form was called a dragon, and it is from this that the term dragoon evolved.

300px|thumb|upright=1.6|Flintlock of an 18th-century hunting rifle, with flint missing.

A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, and was used from the last quarter of the 18th century to the mid-19th century. Its main function was to serve as a powerful, short-range, anti-ship and anti-crew weapon. The technology behind the carronade was greater dimensional precision, with the shot fitting more closely in the barrel, thus transmitting more of the propellant charge's energy to the projectile, allowing a lighter gun using less gunpowder to be effective.

A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. It was a former common naval weapon during the Age of Sail.

British flintlock musket

light one-handed sword designed for thrusting

The jezail (or jezzail), also spelled juzail (or juzzail), is a long-barrelled weapon used in Central Asia, British India, and parts of Middle East. A person operating it is called jazailchi.

type of musket

thumb|A linstock thumb|Firing of a field gun of the early 17th century with a linstock A linstock (also called a lintstock) is a staff with a fork at one end to hold a lighted slow match. The name was adapted from the Dutch lontstok, "match stick". Linstocks were used for discharging cannons in the early days of artillery; the linstock allowed the gunner to stand further from the cannon as it was dangerous applying the lighted match to the touch hole at the breech of the gun. Not only could the charge flash back, but the recoil of the cannon might send the carriage toward the gunner.

Licorne (, Yedinorog, 'unicorn') is the French name of an 18th- and 19th-century Russian cannon, a type of muzzle-loading howitzer, devised in 1757 by M.W. Danilov and S.A. Martynov and accepted by artillery commander, general Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov.

thumb|upright=1.3|Various muzzle loading arms, to scale; number 10,11 is identified as a musketoon (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910) The musketoon is a shorter-barrelled version of the musket and served in the roles of a shotgun or carbine. Musketoons could be of the same caliber as the issue musket or of a much larger caliber, 1.0–2.5 inches (25–63 mm). The musketoon is most commonly associated with naval use, and pirates in particular, though they also served in a carbine role with cavalry. Musketoon barrels were often flared at the muzzle, resembling a cannon or blunderbuss.

firearm, short version of blunderbuss

type of musket

Muzzle loaded firearm used by the Spanish Army 1752-1850s

high-caliber, smoothbore firearm of the 16th to 18th centuries

musket during the Napoleonic Era

army of the Afsharid Empire

type of volley gun

bayonet with a pointed spike rather than a more conventional blade that is attached to a firearm for use as a bayonet and limited usefulness as a handheld weapon

upright=1.2|thumb|English ship Sovereign of the Seas|Sovereign of the Seas, whose armament included eight demi-cannons

thumb The Terzerol (or terzerole) was a small muzzle-loading pistol with one or two barrels, thus capable of either one or two shots. These firearms were used from the 17th century onward, first as flintlocks, and in the 19th century with percussion caps.