[Homestead] A Silly Historical Question...
April Frazier
raving_dove at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 21 16:10:04 EDT 2008
mus·ket·eer (mŭs'kĭ-tîr') Pronunciation Key
n.
1. A soldier armed with a musket.
2. A member of the French royal household bodyguard in the 17th and 18th centuries.
[French mousquetaire, from mousquet, musket; see musket.]
Found this at dictionary.com.
April-
loving looking for factoids
--- On Sun, 9/21/08, Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com> wrote:
> From: Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] A Silly Historical Question...
> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 8:09 AM
> First, I don't want to hear any snickers from out there
> (no, not the candy
> bar).
>
> I have been sitting here since 2:30 or so, catching up on
> posts, etc. - and
> channel surfing to find news.
>
> Here's the goofy part - my left thumb got stuck on one
> of the cartoon
> channels, for just long enough to make me wonder why The
> Three Musketeers were
> called musketeers?
>
> I read the stuff as a child, of course, but it never
> occurred to me until
> now - why did Dumas call them musketeers when all they had
> was swords???
>
> What's the time frame? Were 'muskets' even
> invented yet when the story was
> set?
>
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
> Scratching her head
>
>
>
>
>
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