Afghanistan: 'The Kings Own Jazailichis' - Riflemen of the Afghan Army, P S Lumsden, 1857

The Jezail (sometimes Jezzail from the Pashto language) was a simple, cost-efficient and often handmade muzzle-loading long arm commonly used in British India, Central Asia and parts of the Middle East in the past.

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