The M1870 Belgian Comblain was a

falling-block A falling-block action (also known as a sliding-block or dropping-block action) is a single-shot firearm action in which a solid metal breechblock slides vertically in Groove (machining), grooves cut into the breech (firearms), breech of the wea ...

rifle invented by Hubert-Joseph Comblain of

Liège Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...

, Belgium and produced in several variants known as the Belgian, Brazilian or Chilean Comblain. W.W Greener wrote in ''Modern breechloaders: sporting and military'' in 1871: Modernbreechload00gree

Users

*: M1882 Belgian Comblain *: Given by Peru during the War of the Pacific *: M1873 Brazilian Comblain and Brazilian Comblain Carbine Model 92 *: Standard rifle of

Force Publique The ''Force Publique'' (, "Public Force"; ) was the military of the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo from 1885 to 1960. It was established after Belgian Army officers travelled to the Free State to found an armed force in the colony on L ...

*: M1874 Chilean Comblain *

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

:5000 M1882 Comblains ordered in 1884 *

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: Around 1000 M1881 Comblains from an 1882 contract *

References

External links

''militaryrifles.com'' Keith Doyon, 1996-2007
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