{"id":1003,"date":"2015-08-03T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirates.blkline.com\/?page_id=1003"},"modified":"2015-08-03T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T05:00:24","slug":"dragoon-or-horse-pistols","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/dragoon-or-horse-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragoon or Horse Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><big>Dragoon Pistols (sometimes called Horse Pistols) were used by mounted troops and were kept in saddle holsters. They are large, heavy weapons that fire a very large calibre ball, 65 to 75.\u00a0 After being discharged the pistol is heavy enough and strong enough to be reversed and used as a club. These pistols are made in either Wheellock, Snap Lock, Dog Lock or Flintlock styles.<\/big><\/big><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/EngQueenDragoon61cal.jpg\" alt=\"English Dragoon\" width=\"700\" height=\"227\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flintlock English Dragoon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1415px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/french.jpg\" alt=\"French Dragoon\" width=\"1405\" height=\"505\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Dragoon<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/snaphance1.jpg\" alt=\"Snaphaunce Pistols\" width=\"660\" height=\"286\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spanish Snaphaunce Horse Pistols<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/eng1.jpg\" alt=\"English Dog lock Horse Pistol\" width=\"574\" height=\"206\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">English Dog lock Horse Pistol<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wheellock1.jpg\" alt=\"Wheellock \" width=\"581\" height=\"259\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wheellocks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragoon Pistols (sometimes called Horse Pistols) were used by mounted troops and were kept in saddle holsters. They are large,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}