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Talk:Charleville Musket
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Wasn't this standard issue in the Colonial Army at the end of the Revolutionary War?
The US probably received a ton of them from France post-Saratoga, but US forces (both organized and militia) were likely too diversely equipped for anything to have been standard issue. --Ruzhyo 19:32, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
- The Springfield Model 1795 Musket was really the first "standard-issue" US military firearm, and it was essentially a copy of the Charleville, but you can't really talk about any "standard-issue" firearm for US forces during the revolutionary way. They may have had more Charleville's than anything else, but they were far from standardized. - Nyles
- I realize now "Standardized" was probably not the best term. I meant was this the most common weapon used by the Americans.
- Yeah, it would have been. Specifically the 1763 model, not the 1776 as you see in some sources. The French troops landed towards the end of the war would have had the 1776s, but the Continental Army would have had the older 1763s. State Militia troops would likely have had very few Charlevilles, being armed mainly with a hodgepodge of old Long Land Pattern Brown Besses, American-made Committee of Safety muskets (broadly Brown Bess copies), Spanish Model 1757 muskets sent as aid, and Dutch pattern muskes purchased overseas, and various privately owned fowlers and rifles. - Nyles