Augustin percussion musket

Augustin percussion musket was an Austrian tube lock musket used in the mid 19th century. It was developed from the earlier Console percussion musket. It was used in several European wars, and also featured in the U.S. Civil War.^[9]

Augustin percussion musket
Austrian musket with Augustin tube lock.
Type	Musket or Rifled musket
Place of origin	Austrian Empire
Service history
Used by	Austrian Empire Commonwealth (January Uprising) Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Redshirts (Italy)[1] Second Mexican Empire United States
Wars	Bosnian border raids in the Austrian Empire[2] Kraków uprising 1846 Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire Baden Revolution 1848-1849 First Italian War of Independence 1848-1849 German revolutions of 1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence 1848-1849 Prague Uprising of 1848 Slovak Uprising of 1848–1849 Vienna Uprising 1848 November crisis 1850[3] Uprising in Parma 1854[4] Occupation of Danubian Principalities 1855-1857[5] Second Italian War of Independence 1859 American Civil War 1861-1865 Mexican republikans 1861-1867 (from USA) January Uprising 1863-1864[6][7][8] Third Italian War of Independence 1866 (Redshirts)
Production history
Designer	Vincenz von Augustin
Designed	1840
Manufacturer	Austrian government with many private contracts, primary Ferdinand Fruwirth, Vienna
Produced	1840-1850
No. built	600-700,000
Variants	musket, rifle, carbine
Specifications
Caliber	.70
Action	Tube lock
Feed system	Muzzle-loaded

History

The Augustin Infantry Musket was an Austrian musket that was manufactured from 1842 to the early 1850s. The model was a smoothbore and used percussion caps. The weapon was primarily used during the Revolutions of 1848 mainly in the Austrian Empire, as well as the Italian Wars of Independence with minor use in the American Civil War and Mexican forces during the French Intervention in Mexico with the weapon being rebored into a rifle instead of smoothbore.^[10][11]

See also

• Weapons of the Austro-Hungarian Empire