How Pirates Won the Caribbean With the Flintlock Musket

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Piracy was all about gaining the most from expending the least. A single cannon was quite costly, both in itself, but also powder and ammunition, nor could it be flexibly directed. A group of muskets were much cheaper, expended less powder and shot, but when fired in an accurate volley, had the potential to do more damage to enemy crew, officers, or even the ship’s rigging. The musket had better range, accuracy, and stopping power than a pistol, and could even be used as a club or mounted with a bayonet when charging into melee. Thus, a pirate crew could omit other weapon systems entirely, and still operate with great effect.

Sources:
Arms and armor in colonial America, 1526-1783 - Harold Leslie Peterson
A cruising voyage round the world - Cpt. Woodes Rogers
Ballistics of 17th Century Muskets - David P. Miller
Bioarchaeological Investigation of Possible Gunshot Wounds in 18th Century Human Skeletons from Korea - Kim et. al
Boarders Away II: With Fire - William Gilkerson
European & American arms, c. 1100-1850 - Claude Blair
Firearms: a global history to 1700 - Kenneth Warren Chase
French Military Arms and Armor in America - René Chartrand
Notes, Commentary, & Errata: The Sea Rover’s Practice - Benerson Little
Of Muskets and Bastard Muskets - Simon Marsh
On the frontiers of Europe, not all musket balls were round - Adrian Mandzy
Pirates in their own words - E.T. Fox
The Memoirs of Pere Labat, 1693-1705 - Jean-Baptiste Labat. Translated by John Eaden
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez - Fabio Lázaro López
The morphology of musket wounds - Michael Evans
The Renaissance at War - Thomas F. Arnold
The Rifle-Musket vs. The Smoothbore Musket - Justin Stanage
The Seaman's Vade-mecum and Defensive War by Sea - William Mountaine
The Sea Rover’s Practice - Benerson Little


Music credits:
The three witches - Jon Sayles
Long Note One - Kevin MacLeod
Oppressive Gloom - Kevin MacLeod
At the Sign of the Crumhorn - Vingul
Libera me Domine - Jon Sayles

Footage credits:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Treasure Island(1990)
Starting a Fire with Flint and Steel by Townsends
Testing the Snaphance by Allemansends
1800 Pattern Baker Rifle: Loading and Firing by britishmuzzleloaders
Flintlock Musket: Napoleonic tap loading - fiction and fact by csadler

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:54 History
10:32 Design
18:21 Powder, Shot and Oil
23:26 Variants of the musket
33:41 Musket accuracy
41:05 Reloading
45:58 Tactics
50:42 The damage of a musket
55:26 Sources and credits

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