Eat, sleep, Martini-Henry, repeat: The box-magazine Martini Henry
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The introduction of bolt action, magazine rifles saw Britain's vast arsenal of relatively new Martini-Henry's quickly obsoleted. An ex-army officer, Charles Greville Harston took it upon himself to come up with a cheap, simple solution. The solution was expensive, complicated and quickly surpassed by the introduction of the Lee Metford.
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