Original French Fusil modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Serial F 36557 Brown Bess 3rd MAW was decommissioned on

3rd MAW was decommissioned on December 31

Presidential Unit Citation

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Upon leaving Spain the battalion was sent in 1809 on the Walcheren Campaign

It is nicely dated 1857 on the lock plate

Original French Fusil modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Serial F 36557 Brown Bess 3rd MAW was decommissioned onOriginal 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