List of American Indian Wars weapons

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This is a list of weapons used in the American Indian Wars and Canadian Indigenous conflicts.

## Contents

* 1 Offensive weapons
* 1.1 Edged weapons
* 1.2 Sidearms
* 1.3 Shotguns
* 1.4 Rifles and muskets
* 1.5 Projectile weapons
* 1.6 Explosives and grenades
* 1.7 Machine guns
* 1.8 Artillery
* 2 Defensive weapons
* 3 References
* 4 Bibliography

## Offensive weapons

### Edged weapons

* Claymore
* Cutlass
* Dirk
* Flail
* Gunstock war club
* Improvised knife
* Inuit axe
* Jawbone war club
* Khanjali
* Lance
* Lochaber axe
* Morning star
* Pernach
* Shashka
* Snow knife
* Spear
* Stone war club
* Toggling harpoon
* Tomahawk[1]
* Ulu
* War hatchet
* Wooden war club
* Yakutian knife

### Sidearms

* Colt Single Action Army[2]

### Shotguns

* Coach gun

### Rifles and muskets

* Berdan rifle
* Carle rifle
* Charleville M1728 musket[3]
* Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
* Henry repeating rifle[2]
* M1856 six-line rifle musket
* Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket[4]
* Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
* Peabody M1862 Action rifle
* Russian musket model 1845
* Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle
* Spencer repeating carbine and rifle[2]
* Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle
* Trade musket[5]

### Projectile weapons

* Bow[5]
* Crossbow
* Throwing dart
* Throwing knife[1]
* Throwing spear
* Throwing tomahawk

### Explosives and grenades

* Adams grenade
* Dynamite
* Ketchum grenade
* Rains grenade
* Rains landmine[6]

### Machine guns

* Gatling machine gun[2]

### Artillery

* Hotchkiss cannon[7]
* Parrott 10-pounder M1861 cannon

## Defensive weapons

* War shield

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mahon 1958, p. 257.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Loehr 2004.
3. ↑ Morando 2018.
4. ↑ Mahon 1958, p. 256.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mahon 1958, p. 255.
6. ↑ Rutherford 2020.
7. ↑ Mahon 1958, p. 264.

## Bibliography

* Loehr, Neil (2004), Weapons Of The Indian Wars, St. Marys, Kansas: Kaw Valley USD 321, http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjh/marneyg/03-04_Plains-Projects/Loehr-04-weapons.htm
* Mahon, John K. (September 1958). "Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 45 (2): 254–275. doi:10.2307/1902929. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1902929.
* Morando, Paul (2018). "French Infantry Musket, M1728 ("Charleville")". https://armyhistory.org/french-infantry-musket-m1728-charleville/.
* Rutherford, Kenneth R. (2020). America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie. About the Book. ISBN 978-1-61121-453-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=dvB0ugEACAAJ. "By the end of the war in 1865, some 2,000 "Rains mines" had been built and deployed"

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