List of American Indian Wars weapons

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This is a list of weapons used in the American Indian Wars.

Offensive weapons[]

Edged weapons[]

• Claymore
• Cutlass
• Dirk
• Gunstock war club
• Improvised knife
• Inuit axe
• Jawbone war club
• Khanjali
• Lance
• Pernach
• Shashka
• Snow knife
• Spear
• Stone war club
• Toggling harpoon
• Tomahawk
• Ulu
• War hatchet
• Wooden war club (sharp headed version and curve headed version)

Sidearms[]

• Colt M1873 Single Action Army

Shotguns[]

• Coach gun

Rifles and muskets[]

• Charleville M1728 and M1763 musket
• Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
• Henry M1860 repeating rifle
• Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket
• Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
• Peabody M1862 Action rifle
• Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle
• Spencer M1860 repeating carbine and rifle
• Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle

Projectile weapons[]

• Bow
• Crossbow
• Throwing dart
• Throwing knife
• Throwing spear
• Throwing tomahawk

Explosives and grenades[]

• Adams grenade
• Dynamite
• Ketchum grenade
• Rains grenade
• Rains landmine

Machine guns[]

• Gatling machine gun

Artillery[]

• Hotchkiss cannon
• Parrott 10-pounder M1861 cannon

Defensive weapons[]

• War shield

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Loehr, Neil (2004), The weapons of the Indian wars