A Sinder-Enfield, breech-loading rifle, which was converted from the older the Pattern 1853 rifle-muskets. At first, the British developed a stopgap by modifying the actions of existing ...

And each time it was fired from a different rifle. During the Victorian era that rifle was the Martini-Henry. At the end of the 1964 film Zulu, which chronicled the events of the almost infamous ...

That replacement would be the Martini-Henry, a rifle that some argue should be properly designated the Peabody-Martini-Henry. It is actually a Peabody pattern—an American designed rifle, which ...