Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle Army Technical Manual TM 9-1005-213-25

Army Technical Manual TM 9-1005-213-25

No Magazines exported outside the USA

these were intended as "Cargo Parachutes" just like were used at Arnhem in "A Bridge Too Far"

due in part to lack of initiative by the American corps commander

Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle Army Technical Manual TM 9-1005-213-25Original 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 Franco Prussian war of 1870 71. After the defeat the Prussians removed great quantities of the new French Needle fire rifles, which were a big improvement over the Dreyse Needle fire rifle, the Prussian equivalent that had been used during the war.