Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle with Bayonet Brunswick Parts by command of his date

by command of his date Majesty William IVth and under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen

Many of us old boys remember the "original" sergeant Bilko from the days of President Eisenhower

with the possible exception of the Thompson

Adjutant José Orta and Sous Lieutenant Louis de Burlet were the first to attack an enemy observation balloon when they dropped three small bombs on a gasbag over Houthulst

300 British and colonial personnel were killed

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle with Bayonet Brunswick Parts by command of his dateOriginal 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. No sooner had the defeat occurred the French started fighting among