Jezail

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The jezail (or jezzail), also spelled juzail (or juzzail), is a long-barrelled firearm both smoothbore and rifled used in Central Asia, British India, and parts of Middle East. A person operating it is called jazailchi. Jezails were used by the elite jazayerchi troops of Safavid and Afsharid Iran, notably during the Naderian Wars. It was the main weapon used by Pashtun tribesmen of Afghanistan in the 19th-century, who deposed Shah Shuja and fought in the First and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars.

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