Original French Fusil Mle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by Rare Maker Cahen-Lyon et Cie - Dated 1867 Fusee Spring & Cover WW2 production was farmed out

WW2 production was farmed out to Scotland's Albion works

Some who overshot the Drop Zone (DZ) dropped into the Merderet River and its adjoining marshes

using this tactic at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea

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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 WW2 production was farmed outOriginal 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