Sentences with musketeer
mus·ket·eer
M m - They equipped their troops as sailors, artillerists, musketeers as specified by the Crown.
- Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
- Eliminating the match speeded up fire-drill significantly, but it also allowed the musketeers to be packed far more closely in their units.
- The re-enactments by members of the English Civil War Society will feature musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, with the occasional cannon shot.
- Effective as these weapons were, infantrymen still needed forked stands as props for aiming and firing; and since they were slow to load, pikemen had to be included in battalions to protect musketeers from enemy cavalry charges.