arquebuse

This early model was called an arquebuse à croc, after the crutch that was needed to steady the weapon.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

This early model was called an arquebuse à croc, after the crutch that was needed to steady the weapon.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The arquebuse à rouet was an advanced model of a very costly weapon.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

A. O. Paulin-Desormeaux, in his treatise on these weapons, called them the arquebuse de chasse, a hunting weapon.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

These weapons were reported by contemporary writers to weigh in the range of 8.5 to 15 pounds, less than an arquebuse à croc.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

In 1609–10, Champlain fought the Mohawk with this arquebuse à rouet, a wheel lock weapon that did not require a burning match.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

In short, Champlain fought at Lake Champlain, and probably at the Rivière des Iroquois and the Onondaga Village, with an arquebuse à rouet that was fired by a wheel lock.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

It was also an arquebuse de chasse, a weapon light enough to be fired from the shoulder without a fork.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008