Back Charleville musket English Mosquete Charleville Spanish Fusil Modèle 1777 French Moschetto Charleville Italian シャルルヴィル・マスケット Japanese Mosquete Charleville Portuguese Musketa Charleville Serbo-Croatian Charleville-musköt Swedish Мушкет Шарлевіль Ukrainian 沙勒维尔步枪 Chinese
| Charleville musket | |
|---|---|
| Type | Musket |
| Place of origin | Kingdom of France |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1717-1840 |
| Used by | France, various native Canadian tribes and other tribes throughout New France, United States |
| Wars | Indian wars, Austrian War of Succession, Karnatic Wars, Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary war, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812 |
| Production history | |
| Designed | 1717 |
| Produced | 1717–1839 |
| No. built | > 150,000 (Modèle 1766) |
| Specifications | |
| Mass | 10 pounds (4.5 kg) |
| Length | 60 inches (150 cm) |
| Barrel length | 45 inches (110 cm) |
| Caliber | .69" (17.5mm) |
| Action | Flintlock |
| Rate of fire | User dependent; usually 2 to 3 rounds a minute, an expert 4 |
| Effective firing range | 100 to 200 yards, max 50 to 75 in reality |
| Feed system | Muzzle-loaded |
The Charleville muskets were .69 caliber French smoothbore flintlock muskets used in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Charleville was used during the American Revolutionary War by the Americans and was later copied and manufactured in the US as the Springfield Model 1795 Musket.[a]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "U.S. Springfield Model 1795 Flintlock Musket Type I". NRA National Firearms Museum. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ↑ Spencer Tucker, Almanac of American Military History, Volume 1 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013), p. 416
- ↑ George Mouradian, The Quality Revolution (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002), p. 83
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