It was all right being a knight until gunpowder and muskets and .22 pistols came along.

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It can predict where the empty powder sacks landed when Maximilian's executioners threw them away after loading their muskets.

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Two muskets and a cannon had also been mislaid by their owners.

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By that logic, if the U.S. Army had more rifled muskets in 1865 than today, we should be buying more machine guns.

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European explorers swapped axes, muskets and ammunition for pelts from Native Americans.

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Long-barreled muskets started appearing in the 1400s.

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Among the most sought after are a collection of early revolutionary war muskets produced by the Committee of Safety, a group of American gun makers who copied British muskets and supplied them to militia units fighting for the colonies.

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Excerpt: Hancock held himself back, did not know Couch well, but there was something in the man, something quiet and dark and dangerous, something he had begun to see in a few of the others, had seen it now in himself, that nameless thing: Men who advanced with their troops and did not hear the muskets and stepped over their dead without looking down.

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