Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by St-Étienne dated 1873 - Serial P 91837 21st Century which is probably the unit

which is probably the unit number

Just after dawn on 16 December 1944

"Jiggs Up” for a duration of the war

brass furniture and flintlock mechanism marked TOWER with Crown/G

This patch is approximately 13

Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by St-Étienne dated 1873 - Serial P 91837 21st Century which is probably the unitOriginal 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