The Henry rifle is a lever-action, tubular-magazine rifle designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry and introduced in 1860 by the New Haven Arms Company. It fired a .44 caliber rimfire cartridge from a fifteen-round magazine, an unusually high rate of fire for its era, and Confederate colonel John Mosby is said to have called it the rifle that could be loaded on Sunday and fired all week. About 14,000 were produced, and the design became the basis for the later Winchester rifles of the American West. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Classification
Service Status Weapon Class Introduced Year Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category) Connections
Operated By
Source Wikipedia: Henry rifle
Used In
Source Wikipedia: Henry rifle
Source Wikipedia: Henry rifle
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikidata: Henry rifle
Wikidata Q1606404, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Henry rifle
Lead, first sentence
The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action tubular magazine rifle.
Lead, second sentence
Designed and introduced by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860, the original Henry was a sixteen-shot .44 caliber rimfire breech-loading lever-action rifle.
caliber:44-40-winchester
Uberti and Henry Repeating Arms in .44-40 Winchester and
- Introduced circa 1860 per the entity's own sourced description text; no pre-1900 weapon system remains in current active military service.
Used In: American Civil War, Infobox, wars field
Infobox wars field lists: American Civil War
Used In: Franco-Prussian War, Infobox, wars field
Infobox wars field lists: Franco-Prussian War
Operated By: French Armed Forces, Infobox, used_by field
Infobox used_by field: United States, Confederate States, Native Americans, Mexico, Poland, Tokugawa Shogunate, Empire of Japan, France, Kanem-Bornu Empire
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.