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has gloss | eng: A Blakely rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled cannon that the Confederate States used during the U.S. Civil War and that owed its design to a British army officer, Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely. Blakely tried to interest the British government in his designs, but without success. His designs involved a cast-iron core with wrought-iron or steel banding to reinforce the breech, a design similar to that of the Armstrong guns of Sir William George Armstrong. Blakely believed that Armstrong had infringed upon his patents so when Armstrong became superintendent of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, Blakely stopped offering his designs to the British Army. |
lexicalization | eng: Blakely rifle |
instance of | (noun) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels cannon |
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