The Pattern 1853 Enfield was not Britain’s first rifle to use the expanding Minié-style projectile, but it was a “smallbore” improvement and upgrade of the earlier .702-cal. Pattern 1851 ...

The Enfield Pattern 1853 Rifle was developed in time for use by the British Army in its first great war in decades and was arguably the catalyst of another conflict that nearly destroyed its ...

The Enfield Pattern 1853 Rifle was developed in time for use by the British Army in its first great war in decades and was arguably the catalyst of another conflict that nearly destroyed its ...

The fullsize Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle musket. Yet, when the British infantry adopted the Pattern 1853, it meant that the British cavalry needed their own version as well.

The British 1853 Pattern Enfield rifle-musket, .577 caliber also fired a .58-caliber bullet used by both the Union and the Confederacy. ID Number AF.1377 serial number 2761 catalog number 1377 ...