| 1. | Han people traded and sold matchlock muskets to the Taiwanese aborigines.
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| 2. | The advantage of the matchlock guns proved decisive to samurai warfare.
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| 3. | Most matchlock mechanisms mounted the serpentine forward of the flash pan.
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| 4. | The firing mechanism was typically either a matchlock or a flintlock.
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| 5. | They were armed only with matchlock rifles loaded with stone bullets.
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| 6. | Their common arms consisted of a sword, shield and matchlock.
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| 7. | The Mughal emperor Akbar mass-produced matchlocks for the Mughal Army.
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| 8. | In Taiwan under Qing rule the Hakka on Taiwan owned matchlock muskets.
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| 9. | This made them more accurate than the standard flintlock or matchlock musket.
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| 10. | Having now matchlock guns a weapon seen as beneath contempt.
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