In the english civil war......?

Question

if people who carried the weapons 'muskets' were called musketeers and people who carried pikes were pikemen, who carried/used mortars?

they were invented and they did use them. if you don't believe me check this site : http://www.historyonthenet.com/Civil_War/weapons.htm

also, who used normal cannons?

Answer 1

I do not think they had them but if so I would say they formed part of the Artillery

Answer 2

BOMBARDIER: An artilleryman versed in that department of arms which relates especially to bombs and shells, mortars and howitzers, grenades and fuzes. He has learned to load shells and grenades, fix fuzes, prepare composition for fuzes and tubes, etc.; and on the field or at sieges he fires the mortars. In some foreign armies the bombardiers form a separate corps; but usually there are some attached to every battery.

MORTAR: An artillery tube with a short chamber, designed to fire shells, fire balls, and carcasses at high elevations (45 degrees) using a small powder charge. Mortars were usually sized by bore diameter in inches except for the smaller 12-pounder and 24-pounder sizes. The chamber of a mortar (called a Gomer chamber, after its inventor) was specially designed to concentrate the charge in a small area so the projectile could receive as much of the explosion as possible. Mortar projectiles usually exploded while still high in the air and rained fragments down on fortifications and enemy soldiers

Answer 3

It's dead simple. The English Civil war was won by Parliament. The Parliamentary forces were organised into the New Model Army, known to the Cavalier side as the Noddle Army for some daft reason. Anyway, the outcome was a complete victory for the Commons and the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.

Cromwell died of the dreaded malaria and on his death bed was offered the newly discovered quinine - a powder made of the leaves of quinine. He brushed it aside saying it was "the Devil's dust...." Too bad - he died.

Well, I won't go into the gory details of what happened to Oliver following the restoration, except to explain that he was dug up and hanged in chains while still dead, apparently. So, we do not have a grave to visit. Shame. But, thankfully you can see his statue outside the House of Commons, warts and all.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

PS The Statue of His Majesty King Charles I is at the top end of Whitehall. The King sits astride is favourite horse. Magnificent.

Answer 4

Since it was called a mortar-cannon back then

"In 1640, England was so peaceful that only four people knew how to fire a mortar-cannon. Just eight years later, the nation had become a 17th-century Bosnia, engulfed by brutal violence in which families and communities tore themselves apart."

they were most likely called "cannoneers." (or possibly "mortar men")

Answer 5

Gunners

Answer 6

Artillerymen.

Answer 7

Bombardiers!?