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 Translation for 'Minié rifle' from English to French
armeshist.
fusil {m} Minié [type de fusil qui a joué un rôle important au xixe siècle]
Minié rifle
Partial Matches
armeshist.
balle {f} Minié [ce projectile diffère de la balle sphérique par sa forme en ogive]
Minié ball [also: Minie ball]
armes
carabine {f}
rifle
armes
fusil {m} à air comprimé
air rifle
armesmil.
fusil {m} de guerre
army rifle
armessport
club {m} de tir
rifle club
armesmil.
fusil {m} d'assaut
assault rifle
armes
armer un fusil
to cock a rifle
fouiller qc.to rifle through sth.
armes
fusil {m}
rifle [long-barrelled gun]
armes
fusil {m} à lunette
rifle with telescopic sight
armesmil.
porter un fusil à baïonnette (au canon)
to carry a rifle with fixed bayonet
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Usage Examples English
  • The Minié rifle was an important infantry rifle of the mid-19th century.
  • In addition to spreading the word of Lister's pioneering work on antiseptics and widening the use of chloroform and morphine on the battlefield the ambulance helped to popularise a standardised method of treating bullet wounds which was based on Surgeon-General Sir Thomas Longmore's 1863 work with Minié rifle bullet wounds.
  • From the Minié rifle and beyond, the rifle has become ever more potent at long-range strikes.
  • The musket was withdrawn from service with the British Army in 1854, replaced by the muzzle-loading Minié rifle, which had an accurate range of over three times that of the Brown Bess which it replaced.
  • With war breaking out between the Turks and the Russians, Britain realized that it was only a matter of time before they would be drawn into the conflict. The British Army was in the midst of a significant weapons transformation from smoothbore muskets to rifled muskets. While three of the four divisions of the field army in the Crimea had been supplied with the pattern 1851 Minie rifle-musket, the other regiments of the army around the Empire still carried the 1842 pattern smoothbore musket. By the end of 1853, the Enfield rifle-musket was approved by the War Department for the army and was put into production. The Enfield saw extensive action in the Crimean War, 1854–1856, with the first Enfield rifles being issued to troops from February 1855.

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