Weapons At The Citadel Of Fagaras

Life is changing at a shocking speed and you only realize that by looking back in time. Museums are the best place where to do that. When you look back at how our ancestors have lived once, you can appreciate what you have, more. One of the areas that has had a huge improvement is the defense.

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Life has not always been peaceful, not that it is peaceful now. There are several wars going on as we speak and who knows what the future holds for us. Is the development in this field a good thing? It is good and bad as well. It's good that we can defend ourselves in a more efficient way and it's bad that this is needed. But it is what it is. Come with me to show you what defence looked like in the 18th century. These photos were taken at the Citadel of Fagaras last year by the way.

When I look at these firearms, the first thing I'm thinking is how efficient they were. You know the answer already as we tend to compare these with what we have today. Have you ever fired a gun or a rifle? if you have, you know the difference.

Some of these or most of them are from the 19th century. Each of them had to be loaded after each fire and precision was incomparable with what the word means today.

There was a room full of weapons of all kinds from different eras, to give you an idea about defense in the past.

You could read about the evolution of the weapons throughout the centuries and the origin of these weapons. Some of them are from the the royal fund, some of them from the National Museum of Art and the rest have been purchased. I wonder where from.

Different pistols from the 18th and 19th century. These items always remind me of those movies in which nobles and well offs dueled with each other due to matters of honor and pride, with more or less success.

The unusual design of the guns can tell you that most likely these were custom made for the owner and were not used in battles. The three pistols come from three different areas of the world. The one on the left is from an Austrian workshop, the one on the top right is from England and the one below is an oriental one.

You think a pistol or a shotgun can only serve one purpose, but looking at these beauties, you can see they wanted it to look nice, or even beautiful. The one with ivory handle is from Turkey, and dates back to 18th - 19th century. I keep thinking I would not want to use these. If there's a need to use one, I'd prefer a modern one, this is how my mind works. Knowing there's better, you don't except the outdated, I suppose.

You can guess, just by looking at these swords, how old they are. There were times when these swords were the most sophisticated weapons humanity had. I've only done fencing and can tell you, you need to be brave to handle these weapons. You need a lot of strength and training.

Three flintlock guns. The first one on the left is from 1798, made in Austria. Next to it there's one from Belgium, from the 19th century and the last one on the right is also from Austria, from the 18th century.

I don't even want to imagine those close combats in which these weapons were used. Battle scythes, spears and halberds. Those bloodbaths you see in movies ... Better not.

I've seen plenty of combat helmets in different museums of the world, but never a combat helmet for a horse. this was new to me, but I'm glad some of the horses had helmets. I wonder how they were able to cope with such an accessory as it's very unnatural for them.

Both helmets are from the 16th century. Compare these with the helmets of today.

Battle whip from the 16th - 17th century. I was wondering if these have been found during some archeological excavations, or are just replicas, but there was no info on that.