Original French M-1811 Charleville St. Etienne Flintlock Musket Category_Night Sights Design and development

Design and development

For a few years awful reproductions were available

Constructed of canvas

along with mixed engineer battalions for the army's divisions and sapper companies for the army's brigades

Original French M-1811 Charleville St. Etienne Flintlock Musket Category_Night Sights Design and developmentOriginal Item: Only One Available as used in the American Revolution and Napoleonic war. Once as numerous as Brown Bess Muskets the French M1777 equivalent was referred to as the CHARLEVILLE Musket. However. Charleville was only one of the manufacturing Arsenals, the predominant one being St. Etienne. This example has all steel mounts, brass mounts were generally only used for Naval issue, the lock is marked "Manufact. a St. Etienne", the barrel tang