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Summary Of: Breech-loading

The main advantage of breech-loading is a reduction in reloading time... Although breech-loading weapons were developed as far back as the late 14th century in... breech-loading became more successful with improvements in precision engineering and... General Burnside invented a breech-loading rifle before the war...

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