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Reilly and Sir Samuel W. Baker: - 1854 - paragraph added to the history

The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
(original 1854, reprinted 1874)
https://archive.org/details/rifleandhoundin01bakegoog/page/n14/mode/2up

Reilly was building explosive bullets for Baker in 1854 and made rifles for him for 30 years. Obviously, Sir Samuel knew something about Reilly that the mid 20th century gun historians forgot or ignored: this from the 1874 edition submitted obviously after "Reilly," became "E.M. Reilly" in October 1859.
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1880 Bradshaw
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Reilly also made explosive bullets for Col. John Jacob, legendary British leader of Pashtun cavalry in the 1840's-50's (Jacobabad in Pakistan is named after him) in the midi-1850's for his double barreled rifle which allegedly could reach out 2,000 yards. In 1869 E.M. Reilly patented an explosive bullet.. the design of which may have been drawn from his experience with both Baker and Jacob.

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Last edited by Argo44; 05/15/21 08:55 PM.
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