Original French Fusil Mle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by Rare Maker Cahen-Lyon et Cie - Dated 1867 Vietnam which was intended to allow

which was intended to allow the soldier to correctly orient the knife by feel

Veteran who brought it home as a War Trophy almost one hundred years ago

but was liquidated in 1896

3rd Anniversary 508th Parachute Infantry 20th October 1945

still has several pallets of unsorted EIC Brown Bess Muskets to be sorted through which will happen in due time

Original French Fusil Mle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by Rare Maker Cahen-Lyon et Cie - Dated 1867 Vietnam which was intended to allowOriginal 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