Gunroom
In 1853, Britain issued a percussion rifle musket to all infantry regiments in the Army. Hitherto, rifles had been issued only on a small scale to designated regiments such as the famous 95th, which used its Baker rifles and flexible light-infantry tactics to wreak havoc during the Napoleonic Wars. Line infantry regiments still fought in linear formations and used smoothbore muskets to deliver mass fire at short ranges.
