Original French Fusil modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Serial F 36557 Brown Bess Almost half a million men

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Although it has a resemblance to a Tulwar it is in fact called a KHANDA and was based on swords carried by early European explorers to India 500 years ago

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Original French Fusil modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Serial F 36557 Brown Bess Almost half a million menOriginal 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