List of American Indian Wars weapons

This is a list of weapons used in the American Indian Wars and Canadian Indigenous conflicts.

Offensive weapons

Edged weapons

Sidearms

• Colt Single Action Army^[2]

Shotguns

• Coach gun

Rifles and muskets

• Charleville M1728 musket^[3]
• Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
• Henry repeating rifle^[2]
• Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket^[4]
• Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
• Peabody M1862 Action rifle
• Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle
• Spencer repeating carbine and rifle^[2]
• Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle
• Trade musket^[5]

Projectile weapons

• Bow^[5]
• Crossbow
• Throwing dart
• Throwing knife^[1]
• Throwing spear
• Throwing tomahawk

Explosives and grenades

• Adams grenade
• Dynamite
• Ketchum grenade
• Rains grenade
• Rains landmine^[6]

Machine guns

• Gatling machine gun^[2]

Artillery

• Hotchkiss cannon^[7]
• Parrott 10-pounder M1861 cannon

Defensive weapons

• War shield

References

Bibliography

• Loehr, Neil (2004), Weapons Of The Indian Wars (Plains History Project), St. Marys, Kansas: Kaw Valley USD 321, archived from the original on May 7, 2005
• Mahon, John K. (September 1958). "Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 45 (2): 254–275. doi:10.2307/1902929. JSTOR 1902929.
• Morando, Paul (2018). "French Infantry Musket, M1728 ("Charleville")". The Army Historical Foundation.
• Rutherford, Kenneth R. (2020). America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie. About the Book. ISBN 978-1-61121-453-6. By the end of the war in 1865, some 2,000 "Rains mines" had been built and deployed