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Re: diff between musket and rifle????

One last item: I have read that when the British Army switched over to rifles, vs smoothbores,Wellington decided they would be called rifled muskets because to call them rifles would have offended the elite rifle regiments created during the Napoleanic wars.-Barrett

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