I'm curious if there are many historical records, anecdotes, etc. that give an account of a battle where matchlock and flintlock firearms saw combat against each other. It would be interesting to get an idea of just how much of a disadvantage a matchlock would really be against a flintlock, assuming other factors like the soldiers training, the length of the gun, etc. were more or less equal.
Within the "flintlock" category here I'm willing to include earlier flint-ignition precursors like doglocks, snaphances, etc.
The only examples I can think of where matchlocks and flintlocks were pitted against each other happened during the First Opium War, and in these cases it's hard to say how much the weapon itself made a difference, considering the notable gap in quality between the British and Chinese armies of the time (the matchlock-using Chinese soldiers were, on average, less well trained and organized than their flintlock-using British adversaries).
I'm curious if there are many historical records, anecdotes, etc. that give an account of a battle where matchlock and flintlock firearms saw combat against each other. It would be interesting to get an idea of just how much of a disadvantage a matchlock would really be against a flintlock, assuming other factors like the soldiers training, the length of the gun, etc. were more or less equal.
Within the "flintlock" category here I'm willing to include earlier flint-ignition precursors like doglocks, snaphances, etc.
The only examples I can think of where matchlocks and flintlocks were pitted against each other happened during the First Opium War, and in these cases it's hard to say how much the weMaapon itself made a difference, considering the notable gap in quality between the British and Chinese armies of the time (the matchlock-using Chinese soldiers were, on averaOn ge, less well trained and organized than their flintlock-using British adversaries).
I'm curious if there are many historical records, anecdotes, etc. that give an account of a battle where matchlock and flintlock firearms saw combat against each other. It would be interesting to get an idea of just how much of a disadvantage a matchlock would really be against a flintlock, assuming other factors like the soldiers training, the length of the gun, etc. were more or less equal.
Within the "flintlock" category here I'm willing to include earlier flint-ignition precursors like doglocks, snaphances, etc.
The only examples I can think of where matchlocks and flintlocks were pitted against each other happened during the First Opium War, and in these cases it's hard to say how much the weapon itself made a difference, considering the notable gap in quality between the British and Chinese armies of the time (the matchlock-using Chinese soldiers were, on average, less well trained and organized than their flintlock-using British adversaries).