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Arquebusier
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Ar`que`bus`ier
n.1.A soldier armed with an arquebus.
Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers.
- E. Lodge.


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My friend Christian Bories of Les Arquebusiers des France even sent me a casing made from a 12-gauge paper shotshell he has fired in his Tabatiere, and it simply would not chamber in mine--again giving credence to my theory concerning the variance in chamber dimensions between guns.
Arquebusiers from Vise, Belgium, founded in 1 579, still parade with a statue of their patron St.
Manuel de Lima, wrote the following year to the Goa headquarters, referring to the army of the 'Great Turk' and the 'Turks' who took Basra: 'There are a thousand Turkish horsemen and seven hundred arquebusiers, all of which makes two thousand and two hundred mounted Turks'.
 
 
 
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