Model 1795 Musket

<p>The Springfield Model 1795 was a .69 caliber <a href="/facts/Flintlock/DQ2jMARj">flintlock</a> musket manufactured in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>.
</p><p>The Model 1795 was the first musket to be produced in the United States by <a href="/facts/Eli_Whitney/g61h1LGw">Eli Whitney</a> at both the <a href="/facts/Springfield_Armory/wk5kUfCX">Springfield</a> and <a href="/facts/Harpers_Ferry_Armory/hADGWcxT">Harpers Ferry</a> U.S. armories. It was based heavily on the <a href="/facts/Charleville_musket/GqQ2dVhs">Charleville Model 1763/66</a> which had been imported in large numbers from the <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> during the <a href="/facts/American_Revolution/zy1F0LxK">American Revolution</a> and which at the time comprised the largest number of muskets in U.S. <a href="/facts/Arsenal/UPkcSzvY">arsenals</a> at about 20,000 muskets. The Model 1795 was used in the <a href="/facts/War_of_1812/D94xlnn8">War of 1812</a>, after which shortcomings in both the design and <a href="/facts/Manufacturing_process/3qW7bcdy">manufacturing process</a> of the Model 1795 led to the development of the <a href="/facts/Model_1812_Musket/SMklD9fU">Springfield Model 1812</a> at Springfield only, and eventually the <a href="/facts/Model_1816_Musket/h57DPtdT">Springfield Model 1816</a> at both armories.
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Model 1795 Musket