Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1873 - Serial Q 11083 Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns After slinging the pararack bundles

After slinging the pararack bundles they fitted parachutes

and Congressman Patrick Murphy (the first Iraq War veteran elected to Congress)

Terry's Brigade

the XIII Bengal Irregular Cavalry were among those units than mutinied in 1857 and later fled to Nepal only to be disarmed upon entry

making this a very attractive display piece

Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1873 - Serial Q 11083 Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns After slinging the pararack bundlesOriginal 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