Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1871 - Serial No 6649 Category_Martini-Henry Bayonets Size 34/16

Size 34/16

correct in every respect

Colonized by the Dutch

14–23 October

just a cover for a magazine

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1871 - Serial No 6649 Category_Martini-Henry Bayonets Size 34/16Original Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and