pattern 1853 enfield造句

• To load the new Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle, the sepoys had to bite the cartridge open.
• The "'Pattern 1861 Enfield "'was an alteration to the Pattern 1853 Enfield.
• Whitworth believed that polygonal rifling could be used to create a more accurate rifled musket to replace the Pattern 1853 Enfield.
• His rifle was far more accurate than the Pattern 1853 Enfield, which had shown some weaknesses during the recent Crimean War.
• In particular he sought English-made Pattern 1853 Enfield rifles, and avoided the Prussian and French weapons which were considered inferior at the time.
• Later in the war the same survey was taken, they found that more than 75 % had attained a rifle and most being the Pattern 1853 Enfield.
• The final spark was provided by the rumoured use of tallow ( from cows ) and lard ( pig fat ) in the newly introduced Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle cartridges.
• The Lorenz rifle was a percussion type muzzle loader, and as such was similar in design to the British Pattern 1853 Enfield and the American Springfield rifle-muskets.
• It derives from the act of biting open a paper cartridge containing gunpowder and musket ball in order to load contemporary rifles, especially the new Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket.
• Whitworth believed that the same type of system could be used to create a more accurate rifle to replace the Pattern 1853 Enfield, which had shown some weaknesses during the recent Crimean War.
• The British Army adopted it in 1866 as a conversion system for its ubiquitous Pattern 1853 Enfield muzzle-loading rifles, and used it until 1874 when the Martini Henry rifle began to supersede it.
• Sepoys throughout India were issued with a new rifle, the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket a more powerful and accurate weapon than the old but smoothbore Brown Bess they had been using for the previous decades.
• For example, the U . S . Springfield Model 1861 musket used two flip up leaf sights, set for 300 and 500 yards, while the British Pattern 1853 Enfield used a flip up ladder sight, which was graduated from 100 to 900 yards in 100 yard increments ( although realistically, hitting anything beyond 500 yards was mostly a matter of luck ).
• The "'Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket "'( also known as the "'Pattern 1853 Enfield "', "'P53 Enfield "', and "'Enfield rifle-musket "') was a . 577 calibre Mini?type muzzle-loading rifle-musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867, after which many Enfield 1853 rifle-muskets were converted to ( and replaced in service by ) the cartridge-loaded Snider-Enfield rifle.