harquebus , auch: arquebus
hackbut , auch: hagbush
hagbut

Baron de Chantal was accidentally killed by a harquebus while out shooting in 1600.

The petronel is a compromise between the harquebus and the pistol.

At the same time around the sentry's other side came a man in underwear, trying to spark a flint on his harquebus.

Raising the harquebus, Sulu fired and was almost knocked down by the heavy weapon.

Superb as is the quality of your breastplate, it simply lacks the thickness and strength to stop a harquebus ball at close range."

They could fire their bows five or six times while the Spanish loaded a crossbow or harquebus, then fade away into the woods.

Philip of Nassau was mortally wounded at the beginning of the action, shot point black trough the body with an harquebus.

Steyr Harquebus: A dissident fighting against the corporation.

Arquebus, or Harquebus, an early firearm.

But Íñigo also has an eye for every last pike and harquebus, and for the laborious details of a long siege.

The Spanish, meanwhile, had 137 dead and about 500 wounded, including Bernardino de Mendoza, who was wounded in the head by a harquebus shot.

The front line of harquebus uttered their terrifying, blast almost together and then shouldered the weapon and stand to follow the direction of the bugle.

Here is entree to the world of capes and blackguards, of firearms like the harquebus and tactics born of pragmatism.

The Castilian pikemen and horsemen then attacked the Guanches who were fleeing the crossbow and harquebus fire.

And still they took her, tying her hand and foot, and they rode off with Jannie, the harquebus, the box, and all.

In aiding the escape of the women, the Acomans and the Spanish exchanged volleys of harquebus fire, stones, and arrows.

In the short term, the Spaniards could keep the Tlaxcaltecs at bay with cannon, harquebus, and crossbow fire, but they were too hard pressed to take effective offensive action.

It is also known that Hans Falk recast one of the bells for the Ivan the Great Bell Tower and cast the Yunak harquebus.

This type of cavalryman was characterised by the use of a form of carbine, initially termed a "harquebus" (a word derived from the heavier infantry weapon, the arquebus).

We got the news in Tenochtitlan, probably before the harquebus smoke had cleared from the city, by way of our mice who flitted in and out of Cortes's own ranks.

Near the skeleton lay a helmet of hammered brass and a corroded breastplate of steel while at one side was a long, straight sword in its scabbard and an ancient harquebus.

Five hundred yards farther and another two dozen corpses behind us, we encountered sentries of the more usual sort: cavalrymen close-spaced, with harquebus and sword, and eyes rolling at the dark around them.

Another circumstance which worked in our favor was that the few Spaniards in the plaza who could lay hands on a harquebus found that it had got too wet to spit lightning and thunder and death.

However, the attacks continued, and by June 1765 they were replaced by François Antoine (also wrongly named Antoine de Beauterne), the king's harquebus bearer and Lieutenant of the Hunt.

Among the attractions of the area are golf courses and such scenic spots as the place where Samuel de Champlain shot two Iroquois chiefs with his harquebus (gun) and started the French and Indian War.

On the narrow ledge to the right, the twin of his own former stance, a man stood with a hackbut.

The explosion of the hackbut drowned Margaret's scream.

Then he saw Nicholas, and flung the hackbut away and drew his sword with a wet, shaking hand.

The black mouth of the hackbut, steady as a wand, inexorable as Melpomene, turned like a dark flower to its killing, and Erskine cried softly, "Oh, God!"

Then suddenly the sky above them flashed a stuttering crimson, and iron balls and lead shot rapped into the ditch from above, in a din of sharp hackbut explosions.