During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the company supplied ornate guns and rifles to various Indian Princes.

Missionaries such as Livingstone were unpopular with the Boers, in Livingstone's case because he was believed to have supplied rifles and ammunition to the Kwêna.

Early in 1994, Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman, informed American diplomats that Teheran was offering to supply rifles, ammunition, mortars, antitank weapons and shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles through Croatia to Bosnia.

On May 18, President Lincoln supplied rifles - nicknamed "Lincoln guns" - for the venture.

The disclosure today focused new attention on the charges by Government critics like Nico Basson, a former army major who alleged that the South African military supplied automatic rifles to Inkatha supporters for use in their fights with congress supporters.

After months of internal debate, the Bush Administration has decided to seek Congressional backing for a covert program to supply rifles and other weapons to non-Communist Cambodian guerrillas, Administration officials said today.

Quandt's businesses supplied ammunition, rifles, artillery and batteries, using slave labourers from concentration camps in at least three factories.

In due course, as the Guard demonstrated its political and military reliability, the Kenya Government supplied shotguns and rifles to the Guard.

In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia; and in the Second Great War, the British did the same for Canada and Newfoundland.

According to a judicial inquest last year, Vlakplaas operatives supplied automatic rifles, rocket-launchers and grenades to the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party for its war against Mr. Mandela's organization, the African National Congress.