In addition, the highest value is recorded around 1.5 m, with maximum value of 138 dB which corresponds to the height at which the
harquebuses generate the highest noise level.
on swivels and a greater number of
harquebuses (guns) with more
"These heretics began to persuade many of them with words as well as deeds," Jussie wrote, "for the disloyal boys got up on the city walls right next to the sisters' garden, and all day long they played with their
harquebuses and sang indecent songs" (173).
Facing superior forces and armed with little more than tin cannons, archaic
harquebuses, and courage, the tragic outcome of their defiance was assured.
In his report of this action, Otermin described a much-feared alliance formed by Tupatu's followers and "the confident coyotes, mestizos, and mulattoes, all of whom are skillful horsemen and know how to manage
harquebuses and lances, together with the main body and column of the rest of the people of all the nations." Several days later, in a report regarding the pacification of Isleta Pueblo, Otermin castigated the Pueblos and their allies:
Popular images such as that of Santiago Matamoros, or angels with
harquebuses and the virgen de la leche, are examined within this context.
It was called a harquebus (or arquebus) from a Dutch word meaning "hook-gun." Perhaps it got this name because the early
harquebuses were used in association with pikes, pikes being "hook-spears."
The captain general ordered the flagship's longboat lowered, stepped to its bow and then, with the two royal observers to take notes, perhaps the official interpreter, and no doubt a few sailors armed with swords and
harquebuses to act as guards, he was rowed ashore.
"Warfare since 1914 has undergone a tremendous evolution--the change from the mail and
harquebuses of the Spanish conquest of the Americas to the ordnance known in the Civil War was not greater.
