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pla. 2I.
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Fig.I. [[image: illustration of the right side of a long barreled flintlock musket with wooden stock, no ramrod]
Fig 2 [[image: illustration of the right side of a slightly shorter flintlock musket with a wooden stock, no ramrod]]
Fig 3 [[image: illustration of a bayonet]]
Fig.4. [[image: cutaway cross section of gun barrel and breech plus showing black powder and a ball in the breech of the gun barrel]]
Fig 5 [[image: three dimensional drawing of a breech plug]]
Fig. 6. [[image: illustration of the left side of a flintlock musket, wooden stock with ramrod, with the charging hole open to the breech at the base of the barrel, and the screw-plug dangling from a strap]]

Transcription Notes:
mandc: apparently Fig 3 is an innovation for charging powder into the breech from the side rather than down the barrel.