Pirates and their Pistols

Join our discord: https://discord.gg/qpbfT6NZM5 Hand over them doubloons: https://www.patreon.com/GoldandGunpowder Support G&G buy candle: https://mythologiecandles.com/xnvornil https://gold-and-gunpowder-shop.fourthwall.com Gold & Gunpowder is made by a single person without the use of AI. If your image or footage did not receive credit, contact Gold & Gunpowder. The pistol is, of course, a weapon intimately connected to our vision of the pirate. From the pell-mell chaos of boarding combat, to intense stand-offs between hot-headed rivals, a beach-front duel at dawn, or even concealed at a game of cards... where there's a pirate, there's a pistol. And today, we'll be learning all about 'em. Sources: A new account of Guinea - William Snelgrave Arms and armor in colonial America, 1526-1783 - Harold Leslie Peterson Ashton's memorial - Philip Ashton A relation of three years suffering - Robert Everard Buccaneers and soldiers in the Americas - René Chartrand Captain La Buse: The Golden Age of Piracy - Jacques Gasser European & American Arms, c. 1100-1850 - Claude Blair French Military Arms and Armor in the Americas - René Chartrand Gustav Vasa och hans folk - Göte Göransson Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: 1696-1708 - Cape Town Archives The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land - Thomas Gage The expert sword-man's companion - Donald McBane The Memoirs of Pere Labat - Jean-Baptiste Labat The Sea-Rover's Practice - Benerson Little https://csphistorical.com/2015/10/18/the-firsts-of-blackbeard-exploring-edward-thatchs-early-days-as-a-pirate Picture Credits: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Pirates of the Caribbean III: Dead Man’s Chest Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World’s End Pirates of the Caribbean IV: On Stranger Tides Treasure Island (1990) Cutthroat Island Hjullåspistol 1500-tal - Göran Schmidt, Livrustkammaren Flintlåspistol 1640 - Erik Lernestål, Livrustkammaren Fransk flintlåspistol, 1640-1650 - Erik Lernestål, Skoklosters Slott Flintlåspistol 1670 - Erik Lernestål, Skoklosters Slott Flintlåspistol, ca. 1650-1675, Frankrike - Erik Lernestål, Skoklosters Slott Flintlåspistol Zella - Erik Lernestål, Skoklosters slott Flintlåspistol W. Parket - Erik Lernestål, Skoklosters slott Flintlåspistol av Wendertyp - Erik Lernestål, Skoklosters Slott Hjullåspistol 1600-tal - Helena Bonnevier, Livrustkammaren Flintlåspistol ca. 1670 - Helena Bonnevier, Livrustkammaren The Simpsons S05E05 Treehouse of Horror IV Pirate Pistol Ribband - Pirate Fashions Music credits: The Witches’ Dance - Jon Sayles of jsayles.com DamaMay - Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com Sign of the Crumhorn by Vingulmark of Youtube Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:14 Brief history 5:22 Basic design 11:46 The Turn-off pistol 14:38 Tacticool use 26:37 Carrying methods 38:54 Other uses 41:04 Weird variants #pirates #history #gunhistory