Tabatière rifle
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tabati-re-rifle-181-15357101
title:
Tabatière rifle
text:
The Tabatière rifle was a breech-loading rifle of the French Army. The Tabatière system was developed from 1864 as a way to convert numerous muzzle-loading weapons into breech-loading ones, in a process similar to that of the Snider-Enfield in Great Britain, Wänzl rifle in Austria, and the Springfield Model 1866 in the United States. The name "Tabatière" comes from the fact that the breech-loading mechanism looked like a snuff box. Most of the conversion work had been accomplished by the time of
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encyclopedia
description:
French breech-loading rifle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabati%C3%A8re_rifle
date created:
2009-07-22T07:01:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T02:12:14Z
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