| The Honourable, when he went over the farm with his breechloader, invariably came in and drank a glass of the small beer. |
| It has a 31-inch, heavy octagon barrel, and although a breechloader, it has an onboard ramrod. |
| It was the first military breechloader and first percussion firearm adopted for general issue by any country. |
| The shotgun entered the century as a flintlock, mutated into a percussion lock and finally evolved into the side-by-side breechloader we know today. |
| Lincoln personally tested the Spencer and Henry in the summer of 1861, possibly as early as June, and he was responsible for prompting all breechloader orders placed by the Ordnance Department that year. |
| In 1867 these rifles were converted to breechloader by way of the trapdoor-style Milbank-Amsler system, which chambered a proprietary. |
