This famously included the Zulu War fought in South Africa in 1879, where British soldiers ... version over the full 49" long Martini-Henry rifles. More than half a million of these rifles were ...

1879; illustration courtesy of Donna J ... However, succeeding volleys of Martini-Henry rifle fire pulverized the Egyptian troops, resulting in a lopsided victory for the British.

And each time it was fired from a different rifle. During the Victorian era that rifle was the Martini-Henry. At the end of the 1964 film Zulu, which chronicled the events of the almost infamous ...

Everyone who has seen that film has seen the Martini-Henry and knows it is the rifle used by the British in that era." Unlike the successful defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879, as featured in Zulu ...