i haven't seen a single movie with them using one... and i doubt they could have swordfighted as they did if they carried a large musket with them, so why the name "musketeer"? all for one and one for all :P
2006-09-19 00:12:24 · 4 answers · asked by WraitH 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
even if they did use pistols they aren't muskets google image search shows the musket as beeing a long rifle like weapon that still doesn't explain why they're called musketeers
2006-09-19 00:22:09 · update #1
The Musketeers were a fighting company of the military branch of the Royal Household or "Maison du Roi". They were created in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry (the "carabins", created by Louis' father Henri IV) with muskets. The Musketeers fought in battle both on foot (infantry) and on horseback (cavalry). They formed the royal guard for the king while he was outside of the royal residences (within the royal residences, the king's guard was the "Garde du corps" and the "Gardes suisses")
Shortly after their creation, a second company of Musketeers was created for Cardinal Richelieu. At the cardinal's death in 1642, the company passed to his successor Cardinal Mazarin who disbanned the Musketeers in 1646. The Musketeers reappeared in 1657 with a company of 150 men. At Mazarin's death in 1661, the cardinal's Musketeers passed to Louis XIV. The two companies were reorganized in 1664, and one company took the name "Grey Musketeers" ("mousquetaires gris") from the color of their livery, while the second were called "Black Musketeers" ("mousquetaires noirs"). At roughly the same time, the size of the Musketeer companies was doubled.
The Musketeers were the among the most prestigious of the military companies of the Ancien Régime, and in principle the companies were reserved for nobles. With the reforms of Michel Le Tellier – which mandated a certain number of years of military service before nobles could attain the rank of officer – many nobles sought to do this service in the privileged Musketeer companies.
In 1776, the Musketeers were eliminated by Louis XVI, for budgetary reasons. Reformed in 1789, they were eliminated shortly afterward. They were reformed on July 6, 1814, and definitively eliminated on January 1, 1816.
2006-09-19 09:56:00 · answer #1 · answered by bajoverga 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no....they just like to eat three muskateer candy bars
2006-09-19 00:18:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sassafrass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they did use the pistol variety
2006-09-19 00:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by martin r 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ohh but they did !
2006-09-19 00:22:34 · answer #4 · answered by Nothingness 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋