Martini-Henry

Martini-Henry
/mahr tee"nee hen"ree/, n.
a breech-loaded .45 caliber rifle adopted in 1871 as the standard British service weapon, using a center-fire metallic cartridge filled with black powder.
[after Swiss inventor Friedrich von Martini (1833-97), who designed the breech mechanism, and B. T. Henry (see HENRY), who designed the barrel]

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