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After Prussia and others adopted the Mauser M1871 as their standard rifle Bavaria modified their Werder rifles into the "M1869 Aptiertes Werder", chambered for the same 11×60mmR cartridge as the Mauser M1871 used. The Werder remained the primary Bavarian arm until replaced by the Gewehr 1888.
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Bavarian breechloading rifle M1858/67, Lindner-Braun conversion. The Podewils rifle-musket was a 13.9mm calibre rifle used in the Bavarian army since 1858. [1] It was the most common infantry weapon of the Bavarian army in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 [2] and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71. [1]
The Mauser Model 1871, adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71, or "Infantry Rifle 71" ("I.G.Mod.71" was stamped on the rifles themselves), was the first rifle model in a distinguished line designed and manufactured by Paul Mauser and Wilhelm Mauser of the Mauser company and later mass-produced at Spandau arsenal.
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Although it was originally known as the "Bavarian Lightning pistol" because of its rate of fire, [3] the Werder pistol was proved to be too heavy for practical use and not used during the Franco-Prussian War. [4] It was also phased out by the Dreyse Rifles still used by 1870 and put into training service in 1891 with the introduction of the ...
The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty ( Wehrhoheit ) of Bavaria into that of the German State in 1919.
The 1st Royal Bavarian Division was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army that served alongside the Prussian Army as part of the Imperial German Army. [1] The division was formed on November 27, 1815, as the Infantry Division of the Munich General Command ( Infanterie-Division des Generalkommandos München.