| 41. | In their own fashion they immediately loaded their rusty matchlocks and small guns with powder only!
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| 42. | Firearms, first introduced from Portuguese matchlocks and cannon, were formed in the 16th century.
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| 43. | The Janissary corps of the Ottoman army adopted matchlock arms from Hungary gradually from the 1440s onwards.
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| 44. | In 1543, the Portuguese brought matchlock firearms ( " tanegashima " ) to Japan.
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| 45. | With the annexation of Korea in 1910, all matchlocks were confiscated and destroyed by the Japanese.
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| 46. | The weather was important because the matchlock muskets of the day would not work in wet conditions.
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| 47. | They were armed with their own matchlocks, which in their ignorance they preferred to foreign rifles.
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| 48. | Still, the flintlock slowly began to replace the less efficient and less powerful matchlock in Burma.
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| 49. | However, the majority of French matchlock arquebuses retained the crossbow-style trigger throughout the 17th century.
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| 50. | The Satake won, due in part to the use of over 8600 matchlock rifles by their troops.
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