The Minié rifle was an important infantry weapon in the mid-19th century. A version was adopted in 1849 following the invention of the Minié ball in 1847 by the French Army captains Claude-Étienne Minié of the Chasseurs d’Orléans and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. The bullet was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles and was an innovation that brought about the widespread use of the rifle as the main battlefield weapon for individual soldiers.
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weight (kg)
4000.0
origin
French Second Republic
type
Service rifle
used in war
American Civil War, Boshin War, Paraguayan War, Crimean War, Taiping Rebellion, War of the Pacific, Austro-Prussian War, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Second Italian War of Independence
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