Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1872 - Matching Serial No 32050 21st Century suffering relatively small numbers of

suffering relatively small numbers of casualties in the assaults on Marye's Heights

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these have become very hard to find

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Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1872 - Matching Serial No 32050 21st Century suffering relatively small numbers ofOriginal 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