Well hello again after a long hiatus away. I was discussing with a friend not so long ago about the invention of the rifle (not the gun the twisting effect that keeps the bullet travelling in a straight line for longer). I was wondering when the rifle came into being and when cartriges, closed gunpowder and shot encased in a single round. I know that they had them at the end of the 1800s and the Napoleonic wars were fought with muskets and cannon, but I just thought that someone else might have a website or some more accurate dates. Ta very much.