Early modern muskets are the smoothbore muzzle-loading long guns that armed infantry from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. A weapon belongs here when the infobox of its cited article names it a musket. It excludes rifles, pistols and artillery. Weapons in this group are placed by what their own cited article states, so a visitor browsing early modern muskets sees only systems whose sources name that role, and can compare them across eras, makers and the forces that used them.
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Wikipedia: Charleville Musket
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Wikipedia: M1752 Musket
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Wikipedia: Arquebus
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An arquebus ( AR-k(w)ə-bəs) is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century.
Wikipedia: Tanegashima (gun)
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Tanegashima (種子島), most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock-configured arquebus firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese Empire in 1543. It was used by the samurai class and their ashigaru "foot soldiers", and within a few years its introduction in battle changed the way war was fought in Japan forever.
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