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Historical note on military breech-loaders—The Snider and Snider Enfield—The Martini-Henry—The Prussian needle-gun—The French Chassepot—Miscellaneous breech-mechanisms—The Braendlin-Albini—The original Mauser—Roberts's rifle—The Russian Berdan—The Austrian Werndl—The Peabody—Early American systems; Sharp's, Remington's, Maynard's—Some English systems; Henry's, Field's, Westley-Richards's, Soper's