Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No F20947 Italian Flags 4) Jointed chamber cleaning jag

4) Jointed chamber cleaning jag with hardwood handle

just as used at the Battle of Trafalgar

the M20 had greater effective range

also included are copies of his Service Record to discharge on June 1st

deep in Libya (an advance of 500 mi/800 km)

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No F20947 Italian Flags 4) Jointed chamber cleaning jagOriginal 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