Senjata api adalah senjata perang Melayu

Kebanyakan buku sejarah yang kita baca mengatakan Melayu berperang dengan lembing dan keris sahaja. Ini merupakan satu pembohongan yang nyata. Dalam buku The Golden Chersonese And The Way Thither (1883) by Isabella L. Bird Bishop mengatakan "

The Malay weapons consist of the celebrated kris, with its flame-shaped wavy blade; the sword, regarded, however, more as an ornament; the parang, which is both knife and weapon; the steel-headed spear, which cost us so many lives in the Pêrak war; matchlocks, blunderbusses, and lelahs, long heavy brass guns used for the defence of the stockades behind which the Malays usually fight. They make their own gunpowder, and use cartridges made of cane. "

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