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i'm doing a project on andrew hackson and it says that he sent 5,000 stand of muskets to south carolina during the nullification crisis....
does that mean 5,000 soldiers or something???

help!?!?!

2007-12-03 14:54:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

2 answers

it means 5,000 muskets........rather than lay muskets on the ground, soldiers/hunters would "stand" them up against each other..the familiar three guns in a tripod standing up you see in pictures of the period.....

and while it could mean troops, remember,almost everyone in those days had some military experience and were in a militia........like the National Guard today.....all they needed was guns to make them a powerful force to whoop anything other than a professional army

2007-12-04 02:37:40 · answer #1 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0 0

He probably meant 5000 soldiers. A soldier was really of no use without a gun back then so no matter how many infantry they were able to get to join up with them each would need a musket. To be able to get together 5000 muskets for use in a battle would be a way of expressing what kind of force they were prepared to bring up against an enemy army. He probably would have mentioned a certain number on cannons also.
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2007-12-03 15:20:44 · answer #2 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0 0

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