Pirates and their Pistols

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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/...

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

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