arquebus

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In the first battle against the Iroquois, on the shores of what would be known as Lake Champlain, superior European military technology that the enemy had never encountered before won the day: Champlain fired his arquebus (forerunner to the rifle), loaded with four balls, at the Iroquois chiefs, and killed two and wounded another with one shot.

In 1526, Bartolomeo Beretta was granted a contract to produce 185 arquebus barrels for the city of Venice.

Struck by a stray arquebus bullet from the enemy in the Battle of Noryang in 1598 on the east end of the Noryang Straits, he was about to die.

However, it should be placed on the same shelf with Jacob de Gheyn's Arms Drill with Arquebus, Musket and Pike, written in 1607, for its historical significance rather than contemporary relevance.

My take is that hunters have been successful with fixed stocks since the arquebus, so it's one less variable to deal with.

On the blue walls of a downstairs gallery, several of Gustave Dore's matinee idol angels, two winged dandies from Peru (one armed with an arquebus), and a coterie of baroque cherubsdecidedly Christian imagesare joined not only by Islamic and Hindu angels, but by angel-embellished ketubot from Italy and Morocco, contemporary Israeli paintings of angels, and Paul Klee's "Angelus Novus," which Walter Benjamin owned, cherished, and transformed in his writing into a paradigmatic symbol of existential despair in the face of the Holocaust.

The snug has an oddly shaped window that was listed as being the window through which an arquebus (an early muzzle-loaded ?rearm) was shot.