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He was not just the signatory, he was the author and inspirer—one of the three musketeers.
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The major war boats carried up to 30 musketeers and were armed with 6- or 12-pounder cannon.
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The king infantry can exceed 15,000, including musketeers, foot-artillery, and generally every person connected with that artillery.
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The musketeers were the first infantry to give up armour entirely.
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Swedish infantry were deployed with six ranks of musketeers to the front and five ranks of pikemen behind.
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The defences were only a bank of earth, behind which the handful of musketeers was placed.
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On the battlefield, the musketeers lacked protection against enemy cavalry, and the two types of foot soldier were mixed.
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The march continued some 20 m further and halted again for the first and second rows of musketeers to aim and open fire.
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In his time they carried on their backs musketeers or archers.
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The basic troop types are pikemen, heavy infantry, musketeers, cavalry, and lobsters.
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Owing to this lack of accuracy, officers did not expect musketeers to aim at specific targets.
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Then the rafts with mounted bamboo towers, crammed with troops and musketeers, slipped past the wreckage, and made it to the wall by the harbor.
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Seijuro and his followers have assembled a force of archers, musketeers and swordsmen.
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Although ultimately originating with the 16th century handgunners and the 17th century musketeers and "streltsy", the term "rifleman" originated in the 18th century.
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