The Prussians suffered over 4,400 casualties, which, allowing for their superiority in artillery, still demonstrates the effectiveness of the French chassepot. |
Your big-bore carbine is a French Mle 1866 Chassepot Needle-fire captured during the Franco-Prussian War. |
The bark is jagged by the slashes of venomous chassepot bullets. |
The Commission of Pardons awaited, chassepot in hand, the prey given up to them by the courts-martial. |
Chassepot armed infantry easily checked their opponents, but were pounded by artillery and forced to retreat as the Germans found their flanks. |
Here and there a rifleman stood, his chassepot resting on the iron railing, his face turned towards the woods. |