- The
Minié rifle was an
important infantry rifle of the mid-19th century. A
version was
adopted in 1849
following the
invention of the
Minié ball in 1847...
- The
Minié ball or
Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based
bullet designed by Claude-Étienne
Minié,
inventor of the
French Minié rifle, for muzzle-loading...
- its development, the
rifle's history has been
marked by
increases in
range and accuracy. From the
Minié rifle and beyond, the
rifle has
become ever more...
- 1853
rifle-musket (also
known as the
Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and
Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577
calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading
rifled musket...
-
problem of
designing a
reliable muzzle-loading
rifle by
inventing the
Minié ball in 1846, and the
Minié rifle in 1849. He
succeeded the
pioneering work of...
-
weapons (usually
Minié rifles) into breech-loading ones, in a
process similar to that of the Snider-Enfield in
Great Britain, Wänzl
rifle in Austria, and...
-
whose ballistic performance was
inferior to the
French Minié rifle and the
Austrian Lorenz rifle. The
Prussian Army's low
level of
funding resulted in...
- training. Yet the
Minié-type
rifled muskets were much more
accurate than
smoothbore muskets.
Tests of a
rifled musket firing Minié ball, and a smoothbore...
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engage the rifling. In 1851, the
British adopted the
Minié ball for
their 702-inch
Pattern 1851
Minié rifle. In 1855,
James Burton, a
machinist at the U.S....
- upon
production of the .702-inch [17.8 mm]
Pattern 1851
Minié rifle using the
conical Minie bullet,
which replaced the
Pattern 1842 .753
calibre smoothbore...
