Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by St-Étienne dated 1873 - Serial Q 4716 Russian/Soviet Militaria With a date of 1879

With a date of 1879

North Carolina under the command of Colonel James R Pierce (picture left)  who graduated West Point in 1922 along with General Maxwell Taylor

Troop M to the Presidio of San Francisco on 20 January 1882

were put in the old 40X8s of WWI - only this time about 80 per car - detrained at Nuernberg and put in a flea ridden former detention camp to watch the RAF night saturation bombing with the Mosquito target finding fireworks display that guided the heavies to target

It is stamped twice

Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by St-Étienne dated 1873 - Serial Q 4716 Russian/Soviet Militaria With a date of 1879Original 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