When one looks at the principal arms being used by the militaries of major powers in the mid-19th century ... the substitution of percussion for flintlock ignition. It is surprising then, that ...

The first commercially successful lever action was the Henry Rifle of 1860 ... first decades of the 19th century, as percussion ignition became standard, retrofitting a flintlock to use percussion ...

In the mid-19th century, many nations updated their obsolete ... In France, though, this conversion project extended the life of many former flintlock muskets that had already been updated to ...

1630 - The first true flintlock. The flintlock solved a longstanding ... In the second half of the 18th century, musket design branched out. This period produced a number of single-purpose firearms.