Sentence examples for musket range from inspiring English sources
And where Morgan and his men camped in a misery of mud and mosquitoes where the trail met the Chagres River, modern hikers are within musket range of a five-star eco resort or an easy half-hour's drive back to the boutique hotels, cafés and jazz bars in the Casco Viejo, Panama City's fashionably crumbly colonial quarter – where they still won't serve Captain Morgan rum.
Shelby brought his men within musket range and again demanded surrender.
The Americans approached and lined up in an open field outside musket range.
The English continued digging siege trenches, and began firing on the fortress from musket range on November 24.
Eventually a wind came and the two ships managed to maneuver towards each other until they were within musket range.
Despite severe casualties the French barges continued their approach until they were within musket range, 50 yards.
On October 7, the British saw the new allied trench just out of musket-range.
Q. Just south of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, near Queens Village, are a number of streets that appear to take their names from 19th-century military life: Winchester Boulevard, and below Hillside Avenue, Range, Musket and Sabre Streets.
The History channel, which used to rely heavily on quaint, period-costume re-enactments (a shot of a quill pen writing on parchment, a tableau of soldiers firing muskets at close range), is expanding its virtual reach.
The lance was carried by the cavalry of all the principal European armies through the 19th century, largely because there was no rigorous test of its effectiveness in the face of long-range musket or rifle fire.
This was a genteel sort of warfare in many ways, yet the visceral terror of being hit by a musket ball at close range puts these soldiers and the roadside-bomb dodgers in Iraq in the same fraternity.
