CONTENTS INCLUDE:

• Modern System of Small Arms A brief description 1855
• Dresden, Germany
• Fully Illustrated
• Rifled Infantry Arms as adopted in Various European Armies
• By J. Schon, Captain in the Royal Saxon Infantry
• Preface
• Explanation of the Plates
• A glance at Chief defects
• System of Delvigne and Pontchara
• France and Belgium in 1840
• Over arm introduced into Brunswick and England
• System of breech loading
• Prussian, Norwegian and Swedish Guns
• The English revolver
• The system of Wild in Baden And Wurtemburg
• System of Thouvenin
• System of Minie
• Experiments in Enfield in 1852
• Swiss system
• Wilkinson systems
• Lancaster and American System

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