Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Warfare and Society in Early Modern England.
An early firearm mechanism that used a smouldering piece of cord (a match) to ignite the gunpowder.
Matchlock appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Warfare and British Society and London WWII, especially Warfare and Society in Early Modern England and The Nature of Warfare.
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