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NDIA International Small Arms Symposium, Exhibition & Firing Demo
2006
By Stephen C. Small, Ph.D.
The First Three Hundred Years Of Small Arms
(1326 – 1626)
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Agenda
• Background • East or West?• Users• Firearms• Adaptation • Battle• Learning• Clockwork• C. 1626• Historical Lessons? • Q & A
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Background
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Medieval Europe
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Chronology
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Chronology
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East or West?
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Devil’s Powder
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Inventor of the Firearm?c. 1313
“Devised by the devil himself, a pipe of iron, loaded with powder”
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Users
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User Status at Risk
"To be soaked in one's own sweat and blood, that I call the
true bath of honor“
- Henry of Laon
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The Hand-Held Weapons
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Firearms
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Medieval Bell Makers
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The First Firearm?c. 1326
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The First Small Arm System?C. 1350
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Ammunition
“…a thunderer which shot balls the size of apples"
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Small Arms Ascendancy
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Religion and Weaponry
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Matchlocks
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Snapping Matchlock
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Adaptation
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The Armored Userc. 1450
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Melding Old and New
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Hybrid Small Arms
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Small Arms in Battle
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Battle of BarnetApril 1471
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Alfonso de Albuquerquec. 1511
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Battle of PaviaFebruary 1525
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Battle of PaviaFrancis I and his Knights
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Guesswork and Learning
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Rifling c. 1550
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Weapons Analysisc.1599
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Small Arms Training
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Clockwork Firearm
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The Wheel-Lock
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German Wheel-lock Anti-Materiel
Rifle
Weight: 41. 8 pounds Length: 7 feet 6 inches
Caliber: 27mm
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Repeating Firearms
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Professionalism
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Arms-makers
Guilds
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c. 1626
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Historical Lessons?
Users sometimes got it wrong Old technologies give rise to the newLegacy systems linger on
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Questions?