Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle with Bayonet - Matching Serial Numbers Scabbards & Sheaths by the Mahdi's warriors

by the Mahdi's warriors

It happened on March 29th

Finned and Threaded

which shows some use

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle with Bayonet - Matching Serial Numbers Scabbards & Sheaths by the Mahdi's warriorsOriginal 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