| The breech-loading cannons were set to fire in only one fixed direction and were of little use. |
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| This coincided with rapid improvement in firearms, with breech-loading rifles replacing the musket. |
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| Recoil systems and cartridge ammunition increased rates of fire of breech-loading weapons. |
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| For the next 50 years breech-loading muskets and rifles were made in England as sporting guns. |
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| Steel warships propelled by steam and equipped with breech-loading weapons had become standard. |
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| The American Civil War also previewed the importance of breech-loading rifles. |
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| In the second half of the year the government purchased approximately 6,000 breech-loading rifles. |
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| The second component of this revolution was the reintroduction of breech-loading, made possible by improved technology and especially obturation. |
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| Integral contribution of resources to the function of Halifax's innovative and initial breech-loading fort. |
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| Enterprise was armed with two 100-pounder smoothbore, muzzle-loading Somerset cannon and two rifled 110-pounder breech-loading guns. |
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| By 1870, they had access to more effective breech-loading, repeating firearms. |
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| Better guns, along with breech-loading, made possible both longer ranges and higher rates of fire. |
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| The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted. |
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| First came percussion caps, then rifled barrels, cylindro-conoidal bullets, breech-loading mechanisms, metal cartridges, and magazines. |
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| As of 1897 the 9-pound gun began to be supplanted by a new artillery piece, a breech-loading 12-pounder. |
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| The solution for speeding up fire was simple: breech-loading, if possible, with a repeating mechanism. |
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| They were initially armed with a mix of rifled breech-loading and muzzle-loading smoothbore guns, but the Armstrong breech-loading guns proved unreliable and were ultimately withdrawn from service. |
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| The British army chose the breech-loading system invented by the American Jacob Snider, which could be adapted to the existing Enfield rifled muskets. |
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| In the 1850s, just as with the rifle, came the development of the rifled breech-loading gun that marked the start of a series of technological innovations. |
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| Description: The brigade division of artillery in Canada's second contingent in South Africa grouped together three batteries. Each battery consisted of three sections, each of two 12-pounder breech-loading guns. |
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| She was the ultimate expression of British naval supremacy, more than 400 feet long and armed with 26 muzzle-loading 68 pounders and 10 breech-loading 110 pounders. |
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| It was noted that the weapon used by the Canadian volunteers, the rifled-barrelled, muzzled-loading Enfield, was out of date and needed to be replaced by a breech-loading weapon like that used by many Fenians. |
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| All other European countries soon adopted cartridge breech-loading rifles, usually by converting existing muzzle-loaders and then by purchasing purpose-built breechloaders. |
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