The Whitworth Rifle was a single-shot muzzle-loaded rifle used in the last half of the 19th century.
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“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)