- The
Lefaucheux M1858 was a
French military revolver developed for the navy,
chambered for the 12 mm
pinfire cartridge, and
based on a
design by Casimir...
- Pierre-André
Lefaucheux (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɑ̃dʁe ləfoʃø]; 30 June 1898 – 11
February 1955) was a
leading French industrialist and
recipient of...
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Casimir Lefaucheux (French: [kazimiʁ ləfoʃø]; 26
January 1802 – 9
August 1852) was a
French gunsmith. He was born in Bonnétable,
France and died in Paris...
- In 1854,
Frenchman Eugene Lefaucheux introduced the
Lefaucheux Model 1854,
notable as
being the
first revolver to use self-contained
metallic cartridges...
-
radially from
above the base of the cartridge.
Invented by
Frenchman Casimir Lefaucheux in 1832, but not
patented until 1835, it was one of the
earliest practical...
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further improved by the
French gunsmith Casimir Lefaucheux in 1828, by
adding a
pinfire primer, but
Lefaucheux did not
register his
patent until 1835: a pinfire...
-
Lefaucheux-Francotte M. 71 or
Revolver m/1871 was a 19th-century
Belgian revolver made for
Swedish military. It was also the
first service revolver of...
- The 12mm
Lefaucheux is a
metallic center-fire cartridge. It was
originally created as a
rimless pinfire cartridge using black powder emplo**** by the French...
-
weapons in
spite of
being muzzle-loaders. In 1854,
Eugene Lefaucheux introduced the
Lefaucheux Model 1854, the
first revolver to use self-contained metallic...
- breech-loading
firearms using self-contained
cartridges (introduced by
Casimir Lefaucheux in 1835) and the
first reliable repeating rifles produced by Winchester...
