Sentences with 'rifles'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rifles and other words derived from it.
• « Although at first armed only with knives and a few rifles, the guerrilla Savimbi and his small band soon had an eager following among the Ovimbundu, who make up 40 percent of Angola's then eight million people. »
• « However, trouble for the British was brewing in India. In 1857, Indian soldiers in the service of the British East India Company, known as sepoys, were issued new rifles whose bullet cartridges were, according to rumours circulating among the sepoys, lubricated with pig and cow fat. »