the rifle's more famous associations is its use on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore and map the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The Girardoni air rifle...
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to as the Girandoni air rifle or Girandoni air gun in literature (the name is also spelled "Girandony", "Giradoni" or "Girardoni".) The Windbüchse was...
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Girardoni air rifle (1779) 1789 French Rifle: In 1791 it was mentioned in a book published in France that there existed since at least 1789 a rifle that...
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an air gun based on the study of Western knowledge ("rangaku") acquired from the Dutch in Dejima. Girardoni M1780 repeating air rifle List of air guns...
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actually not a firearm, but an airgun. The Girardoni air rifle, designed by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Girardoni circa 1779 and more famously associated...
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several German states. The Austrian Army introduced the Girardoni M1780 repeating air rifle as a specialist weapon and used them in the Napoleonic Wars...
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