Breechloader
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A breechloader is a firearm or artillery piece in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel. The vast majority of modern firearms are breechloaders.
A Springfield Model 1888 rifle with its breech open.
Three-shot experimental breech-loading cannon (burst) belonging to Henry VIII of England, 1540–1543
15th and 16th century breech-loaders on display at the Army Museum in Stockholm
Replica of a medieval Swedish breech-loaded "cart gun" (Swedish: kärrebössa)
Ferguson rifle
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The Ferguson rifle was one of the first breech-loading rifles to be put into service by the British military. It was designed by Major Patrick Ferguson. It fired a standard British carbine ball of.615
Breechloader
…circa 1715, probably in Madrid. It came with a ready-to load reusable cartridge. Patrick Ferguson, a British Army officer, developed in 1772 the Ferguson rifle, a breech-loading flintlock firearm. Roughly two hundred of the rifles were manufactured and used in the Battle of Brandywine, during the American…
Ferguson Rifle at the National Museum of American History
British Army manual for the Ferguson rifle