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What is a chassepot?

What is a chassepot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military) A kind of breechloading, centre-fire rifle.
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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.

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