How To Use Breech-loading In A Sentence

The French had a good breech-loading rifle, the chassepot, also the mitrailleuse, a primitive machine gun, but their muzzle-loading artillery was outclassed by Prussian breech-loaders.
This coincided with rapid improvement in firearms, with breech-loading rifles replacing the musket.
Recoil systems and cartridge ammunition increased rates of fire of breech-loading weapons.
The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted.
For the next 50 years breech-loading muskets and rifles were made in England as sporting guns.

Because of its greater technological complexity and problems of scale, it took longer for the advantages of rifling, then breech-loading, and then rapid firing to be applied to artillery.
The breech-loading cannons were set to fire in only one fixed direction and were of little use.
She was the ultimate expression of British naval supremacy, more than 400 feet long and armed with 26 muzzle-loading 68 pounders and 10 breech-loading 110 pounders.
Steel warships propelled by steam and equipped with breech-loading weapons had become standard.