Charleville musket
The Charleville musket was an infantry musket of French design first made in 1717 and last produced during the 1840s.[1] It was 5 feet long, weighed 10 pounds, had a calibre of approximately 17.5 mm (8 French lines), and could be fitted with bayonets.[2] It was the standard musket used by the French Army during its production,[1] but was also used by the Spanish soldiers stationed in New Orleans at the time of the Louisiana Rebellion[3] as well as the Continental Army under George Washington around 1777.[2]
In February 1765, the Louisianian Assassin Aveline de Grandpré used a Charleville musket to assassinate Louisiana's governor Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, who had been conspiring with the Louisianian Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer, seeking to keep the colony under French control rather than hand it over to Spain.[4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Charleville musket on Wikipedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 George Washington's notebook – "4th January 1777"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – The Colony's Good