========+======+=======+=============+==================+================ Rifle. |Year |Battle.|Belligerents.|Per km. of the |Remarks. | | | |combat frontage. | | | | +-----+------+-----+ |of | | |Bat- |Esca- |Field| |the | | |tal- |drons |guns.| |Cam- | | |ions |@ 150 | | |paign.| | |@ 900|troop-| | | | | |ri- |ers. | | | | | |fles.| | | --------+------+-------+-------------+-----+------+-----+---------------- Muzzle | 1815 |Water- |French | 12 | 19 |46 |After Napoleon’s loaders.| |loo +-------------+-----+------+-----+concentration | | |British | 10 | 15 |25 |for battle | | | | | | |toward noon. +------+-------+-------------+-----+------+-----+---------------- | 1859 |Sol- |French and | 7 | 5 |19 |After the victo- | |ferino |Sardinians | | | |rious advance of | | +-------------+-----+------+-----+the Austrian | | |Austrians | 7 | 2.5 |21 |VIIIth Corps to | | | | | | |S. Martino. +------+-------+-------------+-----+------+-----+---------------- | 1866 |Cus- |Austrians | 8 | 2. |17 | | |tozza | | | | | --------+ +-------+-------------+-----+------+-----+---------------- Breech | |König- |Prussians | 9.5| 10 |39 |Situation at loaders | |grätz +-------------+-----+------+-----+noon. large | | |Austrians | 10 | 8.5 |43 | caliber.| | |& Saxons | | | | +------+-------+-------------+-----+------+-----+---------------- | 1870 |Wörth |Germans | 9 | 5 |37 | | +-------+-------------+-----+------+-----+ | |Grave- |Germans | 11.5| 9 |46 | | |lotte +-------------+-----+------+-----+ | |St. |French | 8 | 6.5 |32 | | |Privat | | | | | --------+------+-------+-------------+-----+------+-----+---------------- Mag. | 1899 |Colen- |British | 1.5| | 4 |Including 1¹⁄₂ rifles | |so 1st | | | | |heavy guns. of | |battle,| | | | | small | |Dec. | | | | | caliber.| |15th | | | | | +------+-------+ +-----+------+-----+---------------- | 1900 |Colen- | | 2.5| 1.5 | 7.5 |Including 1¹⁄₂