Original French Fusil Mle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by Rare Maker Cahen-Lyon et Cie - Dated 1867 Fusee Spring & Cover - Original web leggings

- Original web leggings

It is in good condition and has wide fuller construction

"Ersatz" bayonets and scabbards are emergency war-time issue bayonets made for reserve and rear-line troops

wounding two of their non-commissioned officers and taking three prisoners

Original French Fusil Mle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by Rare Maker Cahen-Lyon et Cie - Dated 1867 Fusee Spring & Cover - Original web leggingsOriginal 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