In China, the Ming dynasty started producing smoothbore breech loading cast-bronze cannons after the European fashion no later than 1620.
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Joseph Montigny also developed various rifles and shotgun with breech loading mechanisms based on the designs of the Swiss inventor Jean Samuel Pauly.
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However, if war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of breech loading Springfield Model 1865 rifle.
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Guarding Otago Harbour, this breech loading gun was operational from 1889 to 1919 and pressed into service again from 1941 to 1943.
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From June 1900 until August 1901 the battery was reconstructed to take more modern armament-three 6-inch Breech Loading guns.
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The earliest breech loading designs, the double-barrelled shotgun retained its popularity, and, for some time, its exposed hammers.
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The two then started experimenting with pointed elongated lead-coated projectiles fired from rifled, breech loading, guns of Wahrendorff's design.
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Breech loading artillery overcame barrel length limitations of cast cannon imposed by the necessity of retracting the cannon into the hull for reloading through the muzzle.
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The "'Brandt 60 mm Long Range gun-mortar "'is a breech loading mortar capable of firing on a flat trajectory.
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Ripley was replaced as head of the Ordnance Department on September 15, 1863 principally because of his continuing opposition to the introduction of breech loading rifles.
