Brooke+Rifle

=Brooke Rifle= The **Brooke rifle** was a type of rifled, [|muzzle-loading] naval and coast defense gun designed by [|John Mercer Brooke], an officer in the [|Confederate States Navy]. They were produced by plants in [|Richmond, Virginia] and [|Selma, Alabama] between 1861 and 1865 during the [|American Civil War]. They served afloat on Confederate ships and ashore in coast defense batteries manned by the [|Confederate States Army].

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