Messengers would travel by stagecoach armed with pistols and blunderbusses, ready to shoot to kill any bandits or highwaymen. |
The 23rd Light Dragoons, raised in 1781, armed its flankers with small, short blunderbusses with elliptical muzzles referred to as musketoons. |
Arrived outside, they collected some blunderbusses, rifles and revolvers, and took up a position behind some sandhills. |
However, his soldiers now have more primitive weapons, such as blunderbusses, muskets, swords, and repeating crossbows. |
Do men deserve the rap that they're emotional blunderbusses who can't communicate to save their lives, especially with female partners? |