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The Hughes breech-loading cannon 38.1mm gun was designed in 1861 and used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. It was manufactured by the Street & Hungerford Company. It was a breech-loading cannon; the breech of the cannon is uniquely like a bolt-action but has no firing pin in its bolt.
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37 mm McClean Automatic Cannon Mk. III United States: World War I 37: 37 mm Infantry Gun Model 1917 United States: World War I 38.1: Hughes breech-loading cannon Confederate States of America: American Civil War: 40: 1.59 inch Breech-Loading Vickers Q.F. Gun, Mk II United Kingdom: World War I 53: 5.3 cm Fahrpanzer German Empire: World War I 57
Breech-loading firearm that belonged to Philip V of Spain, made by A. Tienza, Madrid circa 1715. It came with a ready-to-load reusable cartridge. This is a miquelet system. Mechanism of Philip V's breech-loading firearm (detail) The breech mechanism of the Ferguson rifle. Breech-loading firearms are known from the 16th century.
A rifled breech loader (RBL) is an artillery piece which, unlike the smoothbore cannon and rifled muzzle loader which preceded it, has rifling in the barrel and is loaded from the breech at the rear of the gun.
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A breech-loading swivel gun, called a "Pierrier à boîte" in French, in wrought iron, 1410.Length: 72 cm, caliber: 38 mm, weight: 41.190 kg. A breech-loading swivel gun was a particular type of swivel gun and a small breech-loading cannon invented in the 14th century.