Sentence examples for muskets from inspiring English sources

At its outset the Union government owned 300,000 muskets and 27,000 rifles; the Confederacy had another 150,000 guns of various sorts; and there were tens of thousands of guns in private hands.

He declared that "preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action", and compared go-it-alone individuals to soldiers trying to defeat fascism with "muskets and militias".Second, it seems clear that resolving America's deficit problems is not high on the president's list of priorities.

He has every right to be proud of his achievement, carried out in the face of opposition from entrenched interests.But there is a gap in his tale of triumph over the forces of reaction, those he calls the "cultural buffaloes", the "old soldiers, sniping with their muskets".

ENOUGH of muskets and tomahawks; today's battles between white settlers and their Indian predecessors are all about property development and casinos.

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British redcoats were surrounded by an angry crowd and "in the confusion of the moment fired their muskets", leaving five people to be celebrated as martyrs.The Boston tea party of 1773 was pre-planned and better choreographed.

In an attempt to equip the militias sufficiently to protect the newly independent country, Congress ordered the purchase of 7,000 muskets in 1793.

During the war, the Ordnance Department of the Union government bought or made 3.5m carbines, rifles, revolvers, pistols and muskets, as well as over 1 billion cartridges and 1 billion percussion caps.

It depicts Maoris, New Zealand's indigenous people, drinking "large amounts of 42 Below" and "exchanging it with the white man for muskets, blankets and Hobbits". It's always the way with cutting-edge humour," says 42 Below's founder, Geoff Ross, who started the three-year-old company as a hobby while working for Saatchi & Saatchi, a giant ad agency.

Originally bush-hunters armed with spears and old muskets, they soon obtained AK-47 rifles and rocket-launchers.A coup by young officers in 1992 did not stop the war, but the new rulers did promise to hold elections.

Kshiti Goswami, the state irrigation minister, says the cadres of his Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) were armed only with "hand bombs", whereas the men of CPI(M) had "light machineguns, muskets, revolvers and explosives".In addition, the CPI(M), which has brought land reform and other boons to poor Bengalis, is quite popular.