The defences were hastily prepared as there was little time to arrange them . Urabi's forces possessed 60 pieces of artillery and breech loading rifles.
32.
The cannon was breech loading and used the original mushroom-shaped obturator system developed by de Bange, allowing to properly seal the breech during each firing.
33.
Although other breech loading rifles were introduced in later years, the Cookson-type long arms were unique in their ability to fire multiple shots without reloading.
34.
The more accurate rifled muskets of the Civil War and the switch to breech loading weapons in the years after the Civil War made older bayonet tactics obsolete.
35.
Carrington's men were armed with muzzle-loading Springfield rifles from the Civil War rather than new, faster-firing Spencer carbines and breech loading rifles.
36.
The battery guns at Kissing Point-two 6 inch breech loading guns had been mounted by October 1892, when officials were awaiting delivery of the range instruments.
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By the 1870s, the perfection of breech loading magazine rifles led to sniper rifles having " effective accurate " ranges of up to a mile away from its target.
38.
Cascabels varied in design and appearance, and were a common feature of cannons from the 17th century until the advent of the breech loading cannon in the late 19th century.
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As the speed of technological advances accelerated in civilian applications, so too warfare became more breech loading guns with recoiling barrel that allowed quicker aimed fire and use of a shield.
40.
"Edinburgh " was the first British battleship since 110-pounder Armstrong breech loading guns, which had not proved satisfactory, to complement her 26 muzzle-loaders.
