Original French Fusil modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Serial F 36557 MG 34 Barrel Jacket Assembly Skennerton and Robert Richardson

Skennerton and Robert Richardson

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These would snap onto the matching connectors on the trousers

80 fuze was also required by the 18-pounder field guns which were given priority

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Original French Fusil modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Serial F 36557 MG 34 Barrel Jacket Assembly Skennerton and Robert RichardsonOriginal 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