"And so what you have is, in addition to the development of the Lee-Metford, and then, subsequently, Lee-Enfield rifles, the long Lees, you have the shorter cavalry carbines." "The principal ...

In 1889, Great Britain introduced its first bolt-action repeating service rifle, the Lee-Metford Mark I. As well as being manufactured by government facilities at Enfield and Sparkbrook ...

Short Magazine Lee Enfield Mark III The SMLE was a shortened and modernized version of the Lee Metford and Lee Enfield MLE. Its size was beneficial to the military providing one service rifle ...

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With their Lee-Metford rifles, broadswords and daggers in their socks, they look like men you would not want to get on the wrong side of. And that's no surprise, because Scotland's Atholl ...

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The Lee Enfield Mk III is an improvement over the older Lee Metford bolt action rifle of 1880s. Fires the potent .303 Enfield. In the Great War, it was considered to be the "most current" model of ...