C.P. Research C., Weapons from the 1650s to 1750s

[Captain_Python]

This thread is dedicated to the research of weapons to the above time period. Weapons include Naval Artillery, Firearms, and Edged Weapons. Below is a list of websites I have found on the topic:

-http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/weapons.html
-http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Weap.html
-http://www.geocities.com/cptblood_1999/weaponry.html
-http://www.thepiratesrealm.com/pirate%20weapons.html
-http://jaspersports.com/fencing/thoughts.htm

If you have any other websites on weaponry of the above topic, please post them here. Also, if someone could try to find the answer to this question:
How many grains of gunpowder and what type of gunpowder was used in a matchlock musket and in a flintlock musket?

 

[William Red Wake]

Thankee. Good information thar matey.


Me preferred weapon be the wheellock pistol and the cutlass.

Finally. I be a sailor now!