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Enfield Pattern 1853 - .577 Ball

Enfield 1853 - .577 Ball

The Enfield 1853 Rifle-Musket was a British percussion fired rifled musket that would see use in the Crimean War, the second Opium War, and the New Zeland Wars among many other British conflicts of late 19th century. Allegations its paper cartridges, which were to be opened by biting them, were sealed with pork and/or beef fat that was sacrilege to Muslims and Hindus (respectively) would spark the 1857 Indian Mutiny. The Snider–Enfield cartridge conversion saw rearline use as late was the first World War.

Most film appearances of this rifle are set in the American Civil War, as it was exported to both the North and the South to the point it was the second most widely used infantry weapon in the war, surpassed only by the Springfield Model 1861 Rifled Musket. The Confederates imported more Enfields during the course of the war than any other small arm, buying from private contractors and gun runners when the British government refused to sell them arms after it became obvious that the Confederacy could not win the war. It has been estimated that over 900,000 P53 Enfields were imported to America and saw service in every major engagement from the Battle of Shiloh (April, 1862) and the Siege of Vicksburg (May 1863), to the final battles of 1865. Afterwards, the American rifles would be exported to Meiji Era Japan where they would see use in the Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion.

Specifications

Weight: 9 lb 5 oz (4.2 kg), unloaded
Length: 55in (139.7cm)
Calibre: .577 Ball
Action: Percussion Cap
Rate of fire: User dependent, Usually 3+ rounds a minute
Muzzle velocity: 900 ft/s (270 m/s)
Maximum range: 2000 yd (1828.8m)

Feed system: Muzzle-loading
Sights: adjustable ramp rear sights, Fixed-post front sights

The Enfield Pattern 1853 has appeared in the following movies, television shows and video games used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Big Trail	John Wayne	Breck Coleman		1930
Springfield Rifle		Union troops		1952
The King of Khyber Rifles	Tyrone Power	Capt Alan King		1953
		British soldiers
		Indian soldiers
20000 Leagues Under the Sea		Marines from "that accursed nation"	Seen in the assault on Captain Nemo's lair, Vulcania	1954
Women of Devil's Island	Michèle Mercier	Martine Foucher	mocked as Charleville musket	1962
	Guy Madison	Henri Vallière
	Fernando Piazza	Michael
		French soldiers
The Charge of the Light Brigade		British soldiers		1968
White Fang	Daniel Martín	Charlie		1973
How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder (Kak Ivanushka-durachok za chudom khodil)		Soldiers		1977
Glory	Morgan Freeman	Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins		1989
	Denzel Washington	Pvt. Trip
		Union and Confederate troops
White Hunter Black Heart			Seen in John Wilson's house	1990
Dances With Wolves		Confederate soldiers		1990
White Fang		A gold prospector		1991
Shadow of the Wolf	Toshirô Mifune	Kroomak		1992
Far and Away		One of Stephen Chase's men		1992
Enemy Gold		Union and Confederate troops		1993
Gettysburg		Union and Confederate troops		1993
Lady Into Lassie (Baryshnya-krestyanka)	Dmitriy Shcherbina	Aleksey Berestov	Pattern 1856 Army Short Rifle	1995
Amistad		Union and Confederate troops		1997
The Sign of Four		British-Indian soldiers		2001
Gods and Generals	C. Thomas Howell	Thomas Chamberlain		2003
	Stephen Lang	Stonewall Jackson
		Union and Confederate soldiers
Cold Mountain		Confederate soldiers		2003
The Last Samurai	Tom Cruise	Nathan Algren		2003
The Last Samurai		Japanese troops		2003
The Hidden Blade		Soldiers		2004
The Fall		Governor Odious's soldiers		2006
Night at the Museum		Union and Confederate soldiers		2006
Silk		Japanese men		2007
An American Carol		Union soldiers		2008
In the Electric Mist		Confederate soldiers		2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Hugh Jackman	James Howlett		2009
	Liev Schreiber	Victor Creed
		Civil War soldiers
Jonah Hex		Union and Confederate Troops		2010
Lincoln	Dane DeHaan	A Union soldier		2012
	Lukas Haas	A Union soldier
		Union and Confederate Troops
Unforgiven		Soldiers		2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues		Members of the history network team		2013
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb		Union and Confederate soldiers		2014
Mad Max: Fury Road	Megan Gale	The Valkyrie		2015
Slow West	Kodi Smit-McPhee	Jay Cavendish	Promo image only	2015
Free State of Jones		Union and Confederate soldiers		2016

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Sherlock Holmes		British soldiers	Short Rifle; "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (S02E04)	1968
North and South: Book II		Union and Confederate soldiers		1986
Inspector Morse		British soldiers in 1859	"The Wench Is Dead" (S11E01)	1998
NCIS - Season 3		Union re-enactors	Silver War (S3E04)	2005
Mythbusters			Swimming With Syrup (S07E05)	2009
Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey	R. Lee Ermey	Himself		2009
Wild Boys		Captain		2011
Revolution	Militia men			2012
Hatfields & McCoys	Kevin Costner	William Hatfield		2012
Hatfields & McCoys	Bill Paxton	Randall McCoy		2012
1864		Danish soldiers	P53 and P61	2014
Endeavour - Season 2		Reenactors of British Army of Crimean War	"Trove" (S02E01)	2014
Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles (Sherlok v Rossii)	Maksim Matveev	Sherlock Holmes	Pattern 1861 Enfield Musketoon; Denix replica	2020
1883		Union Army soldiers	Rifles and P1861 Musketoon	2021

Video Game

Game Title	Note	Release Date
Total War: Shogun 2 — Fall of the Samurai	Pattern 1861 Musketoon	2012
Assassin's Creed III		2012
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag		2013
Assassin's Creed Rogue		2014

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-The '''Enfield 1853 Rifle-Musket''' was used by both the North and the South in the American Civil War, and was the second most widely used infantry weapon in the war, surpassed only by the Springfield Model 1861 Rifled Musket. The Confederates imported more Enfields during the course of the war than any other small arm, buying from private contractors and gun runners when the British government refused to sell them arms after it became obvious that the Confederacy could not win the war. It has been estimated that over 900,000 P53 Enfields were imported to America and saw service in every major engagement from the Battle of Shiloh (April, 1862) and the Siege of Vicksburg (May 1863), to the final battles of 1865.
+The '''Enfield 1853 Rifle-Musket''' was a British percussion fired rifled musket that would see use in the Crimean War, the second Opium War, and the New Zeland Wars among many other British conflicts of late 19th century. Allegations its paper cartridges, which were to be opened by biting them, were sealed with pork and/or beef fat that was sacrilege to Muslims and Hindus (respectively) would spark the 1857 Indian Mutiny. The [[Snider-Enfield Rifle|Snider–Enfield cartridge conversion]] saw rearline use as late was the first World War.
+Most film appearances of this rifle are set in the American Civil War, as it was exported to both the North and the South to the point it was the second most widely used infantry weapon in the war, surpassed only by the Springfield Model 1861 Rifled Musket. The Confederates imported more Enfields during the course of the war than any other small arm, buying from private contractors and gun runners when the British government refused to sell them arms after it became obvious that the Confederacy could not win the war. It has been estimated that over 900,000 P53 Enfields were imported to America and saw service in every major engagement from the Battle of Shiloh (April, 1862) and the Siege of Vicksburg (May 1863), to the final battles of 1865. Afterwards, the American rifles would be exported to Meiji Era Japan where they would see use in the Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion.
 == Specifications ==
@@ Line 31: / Line 33: @@
 | ''[[Springfield Rifle]]'' || || Union troops || || 1952
 |-
-| ''[[The King of Khyber Rifles]]'' || [[Tyrone Power]] || Capt Alan King || || 1953
+| rowspan=3 | ''[[The King of Khyber Rifles]]'' || [[Tyrone Power]] || Capt Alan King  || rowspan=3 | || rowspan=3 | 1953
 |-
-| ''[[The King of Khyber Rifles]]'' || || British soldiers || || 1953
+| || British soldiers
 |-
-| ''[[The King of Khyber Rifles]]'' || || Indian soldiers || || 1953
+| || Indian soldiers
 |-
 | ''[[20000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'' ||  || Marines from "that accursed nation"|| Seen in the assault on Captain Nemo's lair, Vulcania || 1954
@@ Line 51: / Line 53: @@
 | ''[[White Fang (1973)|White Fang]]'' || Daniel Martín || Charlie || || 1973
 |-
-| rowspan=2 | ''[[Glory]]'' || [[Denzel Washington]] || Pvt. Trip  || rowspan=2 |  || rowspan=2 | 1989
+| ''[[How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder (Kak Ivanushka-durachok za chudom khodil)]]'' ||  || Soldiers || || 1977
 |-
-||| Union and Confederate troops
+| rowspan=3 | ''[[Glory]]'' || [[Morgan Freeman]] || Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins || rowspan=3 |  || rowspan=3 | 1989
+|-
+| [[Denzel Washington]] || Pvt. Trip
+|-
+| || Union and Confederate troops
 |-
 | ''[[White Hunter Black Heart]]'' || || || Seen in John Wilson's house || 1990
 |-
 | ''[[Dances With Wolves]]'' || || Confederate soldiers || || 1990
+|-
+| ''[[White Fang (1991)|White Fang]]'' || || A gold prospector || || 1991
 |-
 | ''[[Shadow of the Wolf]]'' || [[Toshirô Mifune]] || Kroomak || || 1992
@@ Line 66: / Line 74: @@
 |-
 | ''[[Gettysburg]]'' || || Union and Confederate troops || || 1993
+|-
+| ''[[Lady Into Lassie (Baryshnya-krestyanka)]]'' || [[Dmitriy Shcherbina]] || Aleksey Berestov || Pattern 1856 Army Short Rifle || 1995
 |-
 | ''[[Amistad]]'' || || Union and Confederate troops || || 1997
+|-
+| ''[[Sign of Four, The (2001)|The Sign of Four]]'' || || British-Indian soldiers || || 2001
 |-
 | rowspan=3 | ''[[Gods and Generals]]'' || [[C. Thomas Howell]] || Thomas Chamberlain  || rowspan=3 |  || rowspan=3 | 2003
@@ Line 75: / Line 87: @@
 ||| Union and Confederate soldiers
 |-
-| ''[[Last Samurai, The|The Last Samurai]]'' ||  || Japanese troops || || 2003
+| ''[[Cold Mountain]]'' ||  || Confederate soldiers || || 2003
+|-
+| rowspan=2 | ''[[Last Samurai, The|The Last Samurai]]'' || [[Tom Cruise]] || Nathan Algren || rowspan=2 |  || rowspan=2 | 2003
+|-
+|  || Japanese troops
 |-
 | ''[[The Hidden Blade]]'' || || Soldiers || || 2004
@@ Line 82: / Line 98: @@
 |-
 | ''[[Night at the Museum]]'' || || Union and Confederate soldiers || || 2006
+|-
+| ''[[Silk (2007)|Silk]]'' || || Japanese men || || 2007
 |-
 | ''[[An American Carol]]'' || || Union soldiers || || 2008
@@ Line 87: / Line 105: @@
 | ''[[In the Electric Mist]]'' || || Confederate soldiers || || 2009
 |-
-| rowspan=2 | ''[[X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'' || [[Hugh Jackman]] || James Howlett  || rowspan=2 |  || rowspan=2 | 2009
+| rowspan=3 | ''[[X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'' || [[Hugh Jackman]] || James Howlett || rowspan=3 |  || rowspan=3 | 2009
+|-
+| [[Liev Schreiber]] || Victor Creed
 |-
 ||| Civil War soldiers
@@ Line 93: / Line 113: @@
 | ''[[Jonah Hex]]'' || || Union and Confederate Troops || || 2010
 |-
-| ''[[Lincoln (2012)|Lincoln]]'' || || Union and Confederate Troops || || 2012
+| rowspan=3 | ''[[Lincoln (2012)|Lincoln]]'' || [[Dane DeHaan]] || A Union soldier || rowspan=3 |  || rowspan=3 | 2012
+|-
+| [[Lukas Haas]] || A Union soldier
 |-
-| ''[[Unforgiven (2013)|Unforgiven]]||||soldiers||||2013
+||| Union and Confederate Troops
 |-
-| ''[[Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues]]'' || || members of the history network team || || 2013
+| ''[[Unforgiven (2013)|Unforgiven]]||||Soldiers||||2013
+|-
+| ''[[Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues]]'' || || Members of the history network team || || 2013
 |-
 | ''[[Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb]]'' || || Union and Confederate soldiers || || 2014
@@ Line 103: / Line 127: @@
 | ''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]'' || [[Megan Gale]] || The Valkyrie || || 2015
 |-
-| rowspan=2 | ''[[Free State of Jones]]'' || [[Matthew McConaughey]] || Newton Knight  || rowspan=2 |  || rowspan=2 | 2016
+| ''[[Slow West]]'' || [[Kodi Smit-McPhee]] || Jay Cavendish || Promo image only || 2015
 |-
-||| Union and Confederate soldiers
+| ''[[Free State of Jones]]'' || || Union and Confederate soldiers || || 2016
 |-
 |}
@@ Line 117: / Line 141: @@
 !align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
 !align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
+|-
+| ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1964-1968 TV Series)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' || || British soldiers || Short Rifle; "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (S02E04) || 1968
+|-
+| ''[[North and South: Book II]]'' || || Union and Confederate soldiers || || 1986
+|-
+| ''[[Inspector Morse]]'' || || British soldiers in 1859 || "The Wench Is Dead" (S11E01) || 1998
 |-
 | ''[[NCIS - Season 3]]'' || || Union re-enactors || Silver War (S3E04) || 2005
@@ Line 132: / Line 162: @@
 | [[Bill Paxton]] || Randall McCoy
 |-
-| ''[[1864]]'' || || Danish soldier || || 2014
+| ''[[1864]]'' || || Danish soldiers || P53 and P61 || 2014
+|-
+| ''[[Endeavour - Season 2]]'' || || Reenactors of British Army of Crimean War || "Trove" (S02E01) || 2014
+|-
+| ''[[Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles (Sherlok v Rossii)]]'' || [[Maksim Matveev]] || Sherlock Holmes || Pattern 1861 Enfield Musketoon; Denix replica || 2020
+|-
+|''[[1883]]'' || || Union Army soldiers || Rifles and P1861 Musketoon || 2021
 |-
 |}
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 |-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
-!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Game Title'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Game Title'''
 !align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Appears as'''
 !align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Note'''
 !align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
+|-
+| ''[[Total War: Shogun 2 — Fall of the Samurai]]'' ||  || Pattern 1861 Musketoon || 2012
 |-
 | ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' ||  ||  || 2012

Enfield Pattern 1853: Difference between revisions

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Film

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