Martini: Revision history

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31 August 2025

  • curprev 20:5720:57, 31 August 2025 TCDE-Team talk contribs 855 bytes +855 Created page with " The Martini–Henry is a breech-loading single-shot rifle with a lever action that was used by the British Army. It first entered service in 1871, eventually replacing the Snider–Enfield, a muzzle-loader converted to the cartridge system. Martini–Henry variants were used throughout the British Empire for 47 years. It combined the dropping-block action first developed by Henry O. Peabody (in his Peabody rifle) and improved by the Swiss designer Friedrich von Martini,..."
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