Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1871 - Serial No 6649 British Antique Guns The scabbard is also mounted

The scabbard is also mounted in silver with engravings

It would have been a death sentence for every man

Iron Fly saucer shaped head mounted on a wood shaft entirely covered in leather together with some soft Crocodile under belly skin decoration

Upon arrival in England the 5th Division was stationed at Tidworth Barracks

and in the Nile Expedition of 1898

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1871 - Serial No 6649 British Antique Guns The scabbard is also mountedOriginal 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