Other European powers adopted breech-loading military rifles from 1866 to 1868, with paper instead of metallic cartridge cases.

Sharps was issued a patent for his design of a breech-loading rifle on September 12, 1848.

The Tabatière rifle was a breech-loading rifle of the French Army.

They have finally noticed the importance of the breech-loading rifle.

The Prussian infantry enjoyed a technical advantage in having the needle gun, a breech-loading rifle that could be fired and loaded from a prone position.

First think about the repeating, breech-loading rifle and how it changed the battlefield.

The British entered each successive war - 1824, 1862, 1873-74, 1900 - with improved technology, from muskets to breech-loading rifles to artillery to machine guns.

General Burnside invented a breech-loading rifle before the war.

When John Hall applied for a patent on a new breech-loading rifle in 1811, Thornton claimed he had also invented it.

After the musket came the breech-loading rifle.