Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Belgian Reworked Serial No 16920 Conflict including Operation Weserübung

including Operation Weserübung

The spread eagle silvered crest wears a gilt crown

White Man Runs Him

Arunachal Pradesh (then part of Assam)

very few sets available

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Belgian Reworked Serial No 16920 Conflict including Operation WeserübungOriginal 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