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Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin

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Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin
Born1791 (1791)
France
Died1882 (aged 90–91)
France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)French Army general, inventor
Known forInventor of carabine à tige

Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin (1791–1882) was a French Army general. He invented the carabine à tige ("stem rifle" or "pillar breech rifle"), based on a method by which muzzle-loading rifles could be easily and effectively loaded.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Gibbon, John (1860). The Artillerist's Manual. D.Van Nostrand. p. 125. Gibbon rifles.


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