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The Spanish had crossbows, harquebuses and armor- clad horses, none of which the natives had ever seen.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were "demilances" riding on great horses; gunners with harquebuses and wheel-locks; archers in white coats, bearing bent bows and sheafs of arrows; pikemen in bright corslets; and bill-men with aprons of mail.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)

We would mount there her two guns and provide an arsenal with powder, shot, harquebuses and bows.

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

But when the four harquebus men set up their iron rests, fixed the harquebuses, and firing cut leaves and twigs from the same tree, there was a louder crying.

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

There were in the army a few footmen armed with crossbows and harquebuses.

From Introductory American History by Bourne, Henry Eldridge