Meanings of british musket in English

It was determined, therefore, to try what the British musket and bayonet could effect.

He leaned upon a stout oak staff, for he had been lamed by a British musket-ball.

Pierced by a British musket-ball.

A fierce but short fight followed in the intense darkness, which was lit only by the flashes from the British muskets.

Two Aboriginal men holding spears tried to resist Cook's party landing and one was injured by British musket fire, the university says.

Vainly single officers struggled out of the torn mass, ran gesticulating up the breach, and died at the muzzles of the British muskets.

Simultaneously with his movement an embrasure opened and a cannon flashed, its roar flanked on either side by a crackling of British muskets.

John Parker, son of the man who captured the first British musket in the War of the Revolution, lacked the proverbial New England thrift.

"A couple of unarmed boys, decoyed within your reach, would be a worthy mark for your treacherous British muskets," said Blair boldly.

"No!" exclaimed the trooper, impatiently, "let the rascals singe their whiskers at the muzzles of the British muskets, if they can be driven there.