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Baker rifle
Description
The first flintlock rifle officially adopted by the British Army, for its rifle regiments. Shorter and more accurate than the line musket.
Historical use
- Peninsular War
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Technical data
- Year
- 1800
- Service
- 1800–1838
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Maker
- Ezekiel Baker
- Designer
- Ezekiel Baker
- Type
- Rifle
- Mechanism
- Flintlock
- Calibre
- .625 (15,9 mm)
- Weight
- 4.1 kg
- Length
- 1,162 mm
- Barrel
- 762 mm
- Units made
- ≈ 22,000
Source: Wikidata Q633100
