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Henry rifle
Description
A lever-action rifle with a tubular magazine under the barrel, one of the first to use a metallic cartridge. The direct ancestor of the Winchester line.
Historical use
- American Civil War
- Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
Technical data
- Year
- 1860
- Service
- 1860–1866
- Country
- United States
- Maker
- New Haven Arms Company
- Designer
- Benjamin Tyler Henry
- Type
- Rifle
- Mechanism
- Lever action
- Calibre
- .44 Henry
- Weight
- 4.2 kg
- Length
- 1,140 mm
- Capacity
- 15 rounds
- Units made
- ≈ 14,000
Source: Wikidata Q1606404
