The National Interest

Martini-Henry: This Rifle Helped Forge the British Empire

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Martini-Henry rifle made history. Many shots have been heard around the world. And each time it was fired from a different rifle. During the Victorian era that rifle ...
American Rifleman

I Have this Old Gun: Martini-Henry Rifles

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** By the mid-19th century, the ...
American Rifleman

The Martini-Henry: Icon Of An Empire

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We Fired the Martini-Henry | Rifle of the Zulu War

We met up with Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, to learn about a weapon that was made famous by the Boer and Zulu Wars: the Martini-Henry rifle ...
The Independent

Soldiers in Helmand unearth British rifles lost in 1880 massacre

British soldiers serving in Afghanistan have recovered weapons looted from the bodies of their Victorian forebears. Rare Martini-Henry rifles lost in the bloody defeat at Maiwand in July 1880 have ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Afghanistan mission was always going to end in failure. A rifle from 1880 could have told us that

And so it ends like this for America and its patient allies: in terrorism, sorrow and regret. After 20 years, the mission in Afghanistan is over, finished in a bloodied disastrous mess that threatens ...
The National Interest

Martini-Henry: The Rifle That Helped Make the British Empire a Reality

Many shots have been heard around the world. 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 ...