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Musket
The musket is a muzzle-loading, smoothbore firearm that became the standard infantry weapon in many armies from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Its spread transformed warfare across Eurasia and Africa. Portuguese musketeers helped defeat the Adal Sultanate at Wayna Daga in 1543, and musket-armed infantry featured in the armies of the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, Russian, Swedish, Ethiopian and Rozvi empires.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Musket. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/musket
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