"The term ""musket"" strictly refers to a firearm with what?"
Rifled musket always successful on the battlefield. In the Italian War of 1859, Austrian troops armed with rifled muskets were defeated by French forces using aggressive skirmishing tactics and rapid bayonet assaults at close range. Rifled musket A rifled musket is a type of firearm made in the mid-19th century. The term referred only to muskets that had been produced as a smoothbore weapon and later had their barrels rifled. The term 'rifle musket' refers to musket length firearms that were manufactured with rifled barrels. The two terms are frequently confused. In the early 19th century, there were rifles, and there were
Cossack with musket Cossack with musket Cossack with rifle, sometimes as Knight with rifle or Cossack with musket (, Lytsar iz samopalom) is a former national emblem of the Cossack Hetmanate (Zaporizhian Host). In 20th century it was the official national emblem of Ukrainian State. The literal translation of the emblem is "Knight with improvised weapon". However, "samopal" more precisely here means a general rifle rather than an improvised firearm. According to an arts studies specialist, "samopal" used to refer to any rifle but musket or carbine. The origin of emblem is uncertain, while its first records date back to 1592. On the