Police say Alexander and Henry, a 30-year-old mother of two young children, got into a physical altercation before he fatally ...

Rare Martini-Henry rifles lost in the bloody defeat at Maiwand in July 1880 have been retrieved 128 years later by troops fighting the Taliban and al-Qa'ida in Helmand province.

The Martini-Henry rifle is still perhaps best known for being the weapon used by British redcoats during the Zulu Wars in southern Africa, made famous by the film ‘Zulu’ starring Sir Michael ...

Vintage engraving of a diagram of the Martini Henry breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle adopted by the British Army. It first entered service in 1871 and variants were used throughout the ...

Martini said that at one point, a soldier with a rifle entered her bedroom to search for the books. "I woke up to to see a young man standing next to my bed with a Kalashnikov on his side, looking ...

THE MARTINI-HENRY RIFLE. Share full article Nov. 23, 1874 The New York Times Archives ...

A specialist in ethnographic art, the 23 year old’s first interest was in militaria, but, after acquiring a Martini-Henry rifle used by the British in the Zulu Wars, he delved into Zulu artefacts and ...

It turned out the force had a total of 15,864 Indian officers and soldiers armed with Martini-Henry rifles. Of these, 3,942 were Sikhs, 2,644 were Punjabi Muslims and 1,212 were so-called ...

Introduced in the 1870s, the Martini-Henry Rifle was a breech-loading, single-shot rifle that became the British army’s standard service weapon. It saw extensive use during the Anglo-Zulu War ...

When events thrust the British Martini-Henry onto the world stage, this simple, robust breechloader became an icon of the empire it served. More than 140 years later, U.S. Marines are still ...