Military of Afsharid Iran
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The military of Afsharid Iran had their origins in the relatively obscure yet bloody inter-factional violence in Khorasan during the collapse of the Safavid state. The small band of warriors under loc
Jezayel muskets on display in Mashhad's Museum of Nader Shah.
Shamshirs (swords) from the Afsharid era, displayed at Nader Shah's Museum in Mashhad.
A lightly armoured Persian Lancer
A field cannon from the Afsharid period.
Jezail
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The jezail, also spelled juzail, is a long-barrelled weapon used in Central Asia, British India, and parts of Middle East. A person operating it is called jazailchi.
Military of Afsharid Iran
…equipped with lighter muskets than the elite Jazāyerchi. The jazāyerchi (Persian: جزائلچی، جزائرچی) were the elite of Nader's infantry musketeers. The jazail (جزائل jazāyel), also called jazayer (جزائر), a flintlock musket, used by these infantrymen was of a much heavier calibre than their European counterparts…
Lithograph dated during the First Anglo-Afghan War of a Tajik warrior (Kohistani) and his jezail.
The elite jazayerchi unit shoot from a hill as Nader Shah's forces push the Ottoman army back at the Battle of Yeghevārd.
Afghan foot soldiers in 1841.
Group of Pashtun Tribesmen (Afridi) fighters in 1878, pictured with their jezails, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.