Weapons of the
Hesse-Kassel Jäger Korps

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MUSKETS

Jägers were not just armed with rifles, they sometimes were equipped with muskets either so that the bayonets could be used to repel horse, (rifles in this era cannot mount bayonets) or due to unavailability of rifles lost to damage or maintenance problems. Percentages of rifles and muskets varies but occasionally muskets may have been as much as 80% according to some sources.

 

 

British Long Land pattern musket .75 caliber smoothbore (Image courtesy of The Discriminating General)

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Spanish style musket known as an Escopeta. 

These Spanish and Portugese muskets were common in the southern colonies as many came in via Charleston SC.  

Later in the war French Charleville Muskets will become more common.

This escopeta is in the William Renwick Collection, Tucson. Photograph by BRUCE D. LINDSAY. © 1965, Arizona Historical Foundation

French 1728 pattern Musket, these muskets came into the American Colonies.  69 caliber smoothbore.

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German pattern Dragoons Holster Pistol.  Jäger journals mention having pistols for mounted action.  Mentions of double barrel pistols occur also but no more description then double barrel.  This image is courtesy of Middlesex Village Trading Post.

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