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Spanish musket
Description
A heavy matchlock that required a forked rest for aiming. The musketeers of the tercios combined it with pikes and arquebuses in mixed formations.
Historical use
- Spanish tercios
- Eighty Years' War
Technical data
- Year
- 1550
- Service
- 1550–1700
- Country
- Spain
- Maker
- Fábricas de Placencia y Eugui
- Type
- Musket
- Mechanism
- Matchlock
- Calibre
- ≈ 20 mm (bola de dos onzas)
- Weight
- 8 kg
- Length
- 1,500 mm
Source: Wikidata Q178243
