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Originally Posted by Apache
Muskets are smooth bore and faster to load. A rifle was slower to load because of the rifling. Rifles could be aimed while muskets tended to be very inaccurate. The French and, except for a few companies, the British preferred the mass firepower of the inaccurate muskets.
Apache
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Yep. The Brits had the 95th, which used the Baker rifle. The Germans had some Jager companies (the American Pennsylvanian/Kentucky long rifle was based on the German rifle, though the American innovation was to add the greased patch).