The Martini-Henry was a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle adopted by the British Army combining the dropping-block action first developed by Henry O. Peabody (in his Peabody rifle) and improved by the Swiss designer Friedrich von Martini whose work in bringing the cocking and striker mechanism all within the receiver greatly improved the operation of the rifle which new iteration was combined with the polygonal barrel rifling designed by Scotsman Alexander Henry.
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origin
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
type
Shotgun, Service rifle
used in war
Balkan Wars, British Empire, First Boer War, Greco-Turkish War (1919–22), Second Anglo-Afghan War, Anglo-Zulu War, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), War of the Pacific, World War I, Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77), Greco-Turkish War (1897)
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