| The bark is jagged by the slashes of venomous chassepot bullets. |
| Chassepot armed infantry easily checked their opponents, but were pounded by artillery and forced to retreat as the Germans found their flanks. |
| The Prussians suffered over 4,400 casualties, which, allowing for their superiority in artillery, still demonstrates the effectiveness of the French chassepot. |
| Included in this assortment were Chassepot, Snider, Spencer and Westley-Richards rifles and carbines. |
| The Prussians were impressed with the French Chassepot and issued numbers of captured carbines to their mounted troops as the Chassepot-Karabiner. |
| Your big-bore carbine is a French Mle 1866 Chassepot Needle-fire captured during the Franco-Prussian War. |
