List of American Indian Wars weapons
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This is a list of weapons used in the American Indian Wars and Canadian Indigenous conflicts.
Offensive weapons[edit]
Edged weapons[edit]
- Claymore
- Cutlass
- Dirk
- Flail
- Gunstock war club
- Improvised knife
- Inuit axe
- Jawbone war club
- Khanjali
- Lance
- Lochaber axe
- Morning star
- Pernach
- Shashka
- Snow knife
- Spear
- Stone war club
- Toggling harpoon
- Tomahawk[1]
- Ulu
- War hatchet
- Wooden war club
Sidearms[edit]
Shotguns[edit]
Rifles and muskets[edit]
- Charleville M1728 musket[3]
- Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
- Henry repeating rifle[2]
- Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket[4]
- Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
- Peabody M1862 Action rifle
- Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle
- Spencer repeating carbine and rifle[2]
- Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle
- Trade musket[5]
Projectile weapons[edit]
- Bow[5]
- Crossbow
- Throwing dart
- Throwing knife[1]
- Throwing spear
- Throwing tomahawk
Explosives and grenades[edit]
- Adams grenade
- Dynamite
- Ketchum grenade
- Rains grenade
- Rains landmine[6]
Machine guns[edit]
Artillery[edit]
Defensive weapons[edit]
- War shield
References[edit]
- ^ a b Mahon 1958, p. 257.
- ^ a b c d Loehr 2004.
- ^ Morando 2018.
- ^ Mahon 1958, p. 256.
- ^ a b Mahon 1958, p. 255.
- ^ Rutherford 2020.
- ^ Mahon 1958, p. 264.
Bibliography[edit]
- Loehr, Neil (2004), Weapons Of The Indian Wars (Plains History Project), St. Marys, Kansas: Kaw Valley USD 321, archived from the original on May 7, 2005
- Mahon, John K. (September 1958). "Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 45 (2): 254–275. doi:10.2307/1902929. JSTOR 1902929.
- Morando, Paul (2018). "French Infantry Musket, M1728 ("Charleville")". The Army Historical Foundation.
- Rutherford, Kenneth R. (2020). America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie. About the Book. ISBN 978-1-61121-453-6.
By the end of the war in 1865, some 2,000 "Rains mines" had been built and deployed
