Basil Gras ( French Basile Gras ; January 2, 1836 - April 14, 1901) - General of the French army , who went down in history primarily as a developer of a breech-loading rifle with a longitudinally-sliding bolt under a metal weapon cartridge , based on the 1866 Shasspo rifle model, which his honor was called the " Gra Rifle ." Some sources call the invention of Gra "the evolutionary pinnacle of French single-shot rifles under a unitary cartridge " [1] .
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 General Basil Gras | |
| Date of Birth | January 2, 1836 |
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| Date of death | April 14, 1901 (65 years old) |
| Place of death | Auxerre |
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While still in the rank of colonel, Basil Gras made a significant contribution to the development and subsequent industrial production of the Lebel rifle .
He was educated in Paris at the Polytechnic School , after which he became an instructor at the Normal School of Shooting ( l'École Normale de Tir ) in the Chalet . After this, Grae led the production of weapons in Saint-Etienne .
The peak of the career of Basil Gras was the appointment of the Minister of Arms of France [2] .
Basil Gras died on April 14, 1901 in the city of Auxerre .
Notes
- ↑ French single-shot rifle of the Gra system mod. 1874 Archived August 13, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ John Walter. Rifles of the World. - 3. - Iola: Krause Publications, 2006 .-- P. 149.
Literature
- Gra // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.