Baker Rifle

The Baker rifle was a British rifle created by Ezekiel Baker in the start of XIX Century.

Description
The baker is a model rifle used by infantry of British Army during Napoleonic Wars, the Indian Wars and Texas Revolution up to year 1830. Named after the manufacturer Ezekiel Baker, a former apprentice to Henry Nock who had worked Whitechapel (London) For about twenty-five years.

After starting his own business, Ezekiel Baker won contracts with the government and the British East India Company to provide muskets and pistols. To obtain such contracts, he was good to be friends Coote Manningham, One of the charge of the British Army, and Prince of Wales, Which facilitated the selection of his plan and an order for 800 rifles, which was then supplied to all parts (except those fitted, because the length).

The rifle was used successfully in Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon and against the Mexican troops in Alamo.

The mechanism and setting the gun had been copied from the rifles of Jäger, The units of snipers of the German armies, acting on the battlefield in small groups equipped with sniper rifles by caliber less than normally used in weapons of the infantry line.

Baker had successfully adopted this solution to all specialties of infantry.