Engineering:List of War of 1812 weapons
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Short description: List of weapons used during the War of 1812
This is a list of weapons used during the War of 1812.
United Kingdom and the Canadas
Melee weapons
- Pattern 1796 infantry officer's sword[1][2]
- Pattern 1796 light cavalry sabre[1][2]
- 1803 Pattern British infantry sword[2][3]
- 1805 Pattern Royal Navy officer's sword[4]
- Boarding Pike[5]
- Boarding Axe[5]
Small arms
Muskets and rifles
- Brown Bess[6][7]
- Baker rifle[8]
- Musket Model 1777 (used by militias)[9]
- Tulle musket (used by militias)
- Harpers Ferry Model 1803 (captured)[10]
Pistols
- New Land Pattern Cavalry Pistol[11]
Artillery
British allied tribes
Melee weapons
- Tomahawk[13]
- Battle axe[14]
- War club[13]
- Red-painted war club (used by the Muscogee Creek of the Red Sticks faction)
- Spear[13]
Small arms
Muskets and rifles
Spain
Small arms
Muskets and rifles
United States
Melee weapons
- Eagle Head Sword[1]
- Model 1812 Cavalry Saber[18][19]
- Starr Saber[20]
- Virginia Manufactory Non-Commissioned Officer's Sword[21]
- Infantry Pike[22]
- Boarding Pike Type I[5]
- Boarding Pike Type II[5]
- Boarding Pike Type III[5]
- Quarter Pike[5]
- Type I Boarding Axe[5]
- Type II Boarding Axe[5]
- Type III Boarding Axe[5]
Small arms
Muskets and rifles
- Springfield Model 1795[23]
- US M1808/1812 service musket[24]
- Harpers Ferry Model 1795[25]
- Harpers Ferry Model 1803[23]
- Model 1763 Charleville musket (left overs from the American Revolutionary War)[26]
- Model 1766 Charleville musket (left overs from the American Revolutionary War)[26]
- Model 1777 Charleville musket (left overs from the American Revolutionary War)[23]
- Brown Bess (captured and left overs from the American Revolutionary War)
- Long rifle[27]
- 1792 contract rifle
- Model 1814 common rifle[28]
Pistols
Artillery
American allied tribes
Melee weapons
Small arms
Muskets and rifles
- Springfield Model 1795[33]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Weapons". https://www.warof1812.ca/weapons.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matthew Honey. "Swords in North America from 1750 - 1814: From Variety to Uniformity". https://emrysarms.com/swords-in-north-america-1700-1814/. "The 1796 pattern infantry and cavalry swords and the 1803 pattern were all present and in use in North America throughout the War of 1812."
- ↑ "1803 Pattern British Infantry Sword (1803 -1821)". https://militaryheritage.com/1803sword.htm.
- ↑ "Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar Sword - 1805 Pattern Royal Navy Officer's Sword (1805 -1827)". https://www.militaryheritage.com/nelsonsword.htm.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Alan Boyd. "AMERICAN BOARDING PIKES AND BOARDING AXES DURING THE WAR OF 1812". https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/American-boarding-pikes-and-axes-War-1812-Boyd-v120.pdf.
- ↑ "Arms and the Men of the War of 1812" (in en). https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/arms-and-the-men-of-1812.
- ↑ "Brown Bess Musket in the War of 1812 - Canada's History" (in en). https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/brown-bess-musket-in-the-war-of-1812.
- ↑ "Weapons and Tactics in the War of 1812 - The Exchange Niagara Falls" (in en). https://nfexchange.ca/museum/discover-our-history/history-notes/weapons-and-tactics-in-the-war-of-1812.
- ↑ "French Model 1777 Infantry Musket (Charleville) - AN IX Version". https://militaryheritage.com/musket4.htm.
- ↑ "Harpers Ferry rifle captured from USS President" (in en). https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/collection-items/harpers-ferry-rifle-captured-from-uss-president/.
- ↑ "British New Land Pattern Cavalry Pistol ( Napoleonic Wars)" (in en). https://www.militaryheritage.com/pistol6.htm.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Field Artillery of the War of 1812: Equipment, Organization, Tactics and Effectiveness". 12 November 2009. https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/Warof1812/2009/Issue12/c_Artillery.html.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 "Weapons and Tactics in the War of 1812". https://nfexchange.ca/museum/discover-our-history/history-notes/weapons-and-tactics-in-the-war-of-1812. "During the course of the war, the First Nations warriors used a wide range of weapons, including muskets, bayonets, rifles, pistols, bows, knives, tomahawks, clubs, swords and spears. These weapons were generally furnished by the American and British armies."
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Weapons and Tactics in the War of 1812". https://nfexchange.ca/museum/discover-our-history/history-notes/weapons-and-tactics-in-the-war-of-1812. "First Nations warriors also brought their own tomahawks or battle axes."
- ↑ "Weapons and Tactics in the War of 1812". https://nfexchange.ca/museum/discover-our-history/history-notes/weapons-and-tactics-in-the-war-of-1812. "Between 1813 and 1816 the Indian Department of the British Army issued more than 26,000 firearms in the Great Lakes region"
- ↑ "Weapons and Tactics in the War of 1812". https://nfexchange.ca/museum/discover-our-history/history-notes/weapons-and-tactics-in-the-war-of-1812. "Almost half of the guns were muskets, although rifles, pistols and chief's guns (sporting-type guns with silver inlay decoration) were also distributed to First Nations allies."
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "The Escopeta: A Historical Overview of the Spanish Musket". 1 January 1995. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/escopeta. "But when the mainline colonial regiments and militia in Mexico, Louisiana, and Florida were armed with 1752 and 1791 pattern regulation muskets, the mounted presidial Sic forces and local militia units in Texas continued to use the escopeta, which was still considered acceptable for use against Indians as specified by the Royal Regulations of 1772."
- ↑ "Extremely Rare U.S. Model 1812 Cavalry Saber by William Rose / SOLD". https://uniondb.com/product/extremely-rare-u-s-model-1812-cavalry-saber-by-william-rose-sold/.
- ↑ "War of 1812 saber". https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll6/id/10053/.
- ↑ "Weapons in the War of 1812". 2013. https://www.ncpedia.org/weapons-war-1812. "The sabers provided were most commonly Starr sabers. Leading up to and during the war, Nathan Starr was granted multiple contracts to supply horsemen’s swords based off a pattern by William Rose, who also provided sabers for the dragoons. The saber was a single-edged, curved iron blade. It was 38 ¾ inches in length with a 1 ⅜ inch wide blade. The difference between the two designs was that Starr’s model had a leather scabbard instead of iron. With only a handful of light dragoons called into service, not many of these weapons were used, and swords were becoming more of an officer’s weapon."
- ↑ "Virginia Manufactory Non-Commissioned Officer's Sword". September 2020. https://emrysarms.com/virginia-manufactory-artillery-officer-sword/.
- ↑ "Weapons and Tactics in the War of 1812". https://nfexchange.ca/museum/discover-our-history/history-notes/weapons-and-tactics-in-the-war-of-1812. "The 15th Infantry carried a unique weapon called a pike, a spearhead on a long pole."
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 "Equipment in the War of 1812". https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/equipment-war-1812.
- ↑ https://powderandlead.net/model-1812-musket/
- ↑ "Harpers Ferry / Springfield Model 1795". 21 March 2019. https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.php?smallarms_id=375.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 "Guns Of The War Of 1812". 27 September 2012. https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/guns-of-the-war-of-1812/. "The facility was storing thousands of French muskets, mostly Model 1763s and 1766s, left over from the Revolution. Some of those guns would ultimately find their way into the hands of Americans during the War of 1812"
- ↑ Association, National Rifle. "An Official Journal Of The NRA | Guns Of The War Of 1812" (in en). https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/guns-of-the-war-of-1812/.
- ↑ "U.S. Henry Deringer Model 1814 Common Rifle". https://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/a-prospering-new-republic-1780-to-1860/case-7-early-american-military-arms/us-henry-deringer-model-1814-common-rifle.aspx.
- ↑ "Simeon North Pistol" (in en). https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/collection-items/simeon-north-pistol/.
- ↑ "Weapons in the War of 1812 | NCpedia" (in en). https://www.ncpedia.org/weapons-war-1812.
- ↑ "The Pivotal Role of Artillery in the War of 1812". 17 December 2025. https://www.thecollector.com/role-of-artillery-war-of-1812/.
- ↑ "Seacoast Fortifications of the United States", Emanuel Lewis, 1970, ISBN 0-929521-11-0
- ↑ "Weapons and Tactics in the War of 1812". https://nfexchange.ca/museum/discover-our-history/history-notes/weapons-and-tactics-in-the-war-of-1812. "The American army issued similar weapons to their Indigenous allies although they were generally of poorer quality than the British ones. The U.S. Army tended to give away more rifles than muskets."
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