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arquebus

Portable long-barrelled gun fired either by a matchlock or wheel lock; by the middle of the 15th century the term had come to mean a light firearm for military or sporting use.

In 1630 the Council of War defined an arquebus as a firearm with an overall length of 114 cm/45 in, a barrel length of 76 cm/30 in, and a 43-cm/17-in bore.
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The vicar of the Uniate metropolitan of Kyiv had to flee from Vydubychi monastery when a Cossack entered and began firing at him from a hackbut (p.
History of Ukraine Rus', Volume Seven: The Cossack Age to 1625 by Himka, John-Paul / Canadian Journal of History
 
 
 
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