From Charleville to Springfield: Part 1 - Historic Muskets Reviewed

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@PalmettoNDN 4 ай бұрын

This excellent video deserves far more likes.

@RevolutionaryGazette 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Hope you enjoyed this and the 2nd half. Cheers!

@hokehinson5987 Ай бұрын

As a confederate c.w. historical impressionist our go to arm was the 1842 smooth bore musket..only reason it was replaced was the quantity in the south once the state military stores ran out as the war rolled on. BTW nice informative video.

@TheMotleyPatriot 2 ай бұрын

Do you get into the muskets acquired for the civil war that were converted to percussion?

@RevolutionaryGazette 2 ай бұрын

We certainly do. Part two of the series is over on the KZbin page Civil War, digital digest and that is exactly what is discussed over there.

@dianenorkus9906 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to these muskets after the Revolutionary War? Did the soldiers take them home or did they go into an armory?

@howedaddy6122 2 жыл бұрын

Soldiers were actually allowed to keep all the things they had been equipped with including their uniforms.

@k.j.lindsey3048 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the Charleville’s and other accoutrements of the Revolution were sent to the Northwest Territory to arm the state militias in the 1812 era. I really enjoyed this episode as I use a reproduction 1763 Charleville in my impression of the Michigan Territorial militia during the War of 1812. Thanks!

@crazeemunkee 2 жыл бұрын

A bit of trivia that most don't seem to know is that the French never called this musket a "Charleville." Calling it a "Charleville" is an American practice. The town of Charleville-Mezieres is simply where one of the several armories were located that produced French muskets. Also, to be totally accurate, the 1777 was further modified in 1802 and called the "Year 9" (An IX) model. This was the model carried in the Napoleonic Wars.

@jeffreyrobinson3555 9 ай бұрын

100,000 imported. Men fought with their own militia guns and with captured besses, by a hundred thousand of these imported. Yet it’s unlikely more than thirty thousand colonials ever fought for the American side. Guns got busted and lost, but that’s atleast three Charlies for every American soldier Another point to look at, is the colonies population was about two million. Roughly six hundred thousand men between 16 and 50. No society of the time could mobilize a tenth of its potential fighting force. And according to Franklin 1/3 of the colonist were Tory and 1/3 didn’t care. So the max potential was two hundred thousand fighting men, and the realistic number about twenty thousand So the French sent over five muskets for every new US army man at arms

@KaL_69_ 4 ай бұрын

Gustav Adolf, Charles 12, Frederick the Great mobilized 50% of the male population

@normangerring4645 2 жыл бұрын

Very insightful, thank you.

@RevolutionaryGazette 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@johnmathews4390 Жыл бұрын

This was great. Really appreciate the work that went into the research and production of this video. I learned a lot.

@RevolutionaryGazette Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! Hope you caught the other part over at Civil War Digital Digest.

@nonsibi1087 Жыл бұрын

This is the best overview I've yet seen. One detail that you may wish to incorporate is the seemingly unrelated matter of which US government entity funded either the US armory-made muskets or the contract muskets from 1994 through the War of 1812, as it accounts for some of the variations seen between the two. The US armories came under the US Army Ordnance who controlled and funded them. The contracts of 1992, 1794, 1808, etc., were controlled and funded seperately by the US Department of the Treasury that funded private manufacturers.