Engineering:List of American Indian Wars weapons
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This is a list of weapons used in the American Indian Wars and Canadian Indigenous conflicts.
Offensive weapons
Edged weapons
- Claymore
- Cutlass
- Dirk
- Flail
- Gunstock war club
- Improvised knife
- Inuit axe
- Jawbone war club
- Khanjali
- Lance
- Lochaber axe
- Morning star
- Pernach
- Shashka
- Snow knife
- Spear
- Stone war club
- Toggling harpoon
- Tomahawk
- Ulu
- War hatchet
- Wooden war club (sharp headed version and curve headed version)
Sidearms
Shotguns
Rifles and muskets
- Charleville M1728 and M1763 musket
- Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
- Henry M1860 repeating rifle
- Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket
- Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
- Peabody M1862 Action rifle
- Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle
- Spencer M1860 repeating carbine and rifle
- Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle
Projectile weapons
- Bow
- Crossbow
- Throwing dart
- Throwing knife
- Throwing spear
- Throwing tomahawk
Explosives and grenades
- Adams grenade
- Dynamite
- Ketchum grenade
- Rains grenade
- Rains landmine
Machine guns
- Gatling machine gun
Artillery
- Hotchkiss cannon
- Parrott 10-pounder M1861 cannon
Defensive weapons
Shields and body armor
- War shield
References
Bibliography
- Loehr, Neil (2004), The weapons of the Indian wars, http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjh/marneyg/03-04_Plains-Projects/Loehr-04-weapons.htm
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of American Indian Wars weapons.
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