1) Rifle
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The Chassepot, officially known as Fusil modèle 1866, was a bolt action military breechloading rifle, famous as the arm of the French forces in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. It replaced an assortment of Minié muzzleloading rifles many of which were converted in 1867 to breech loading (the Tabatière rifles). A great improvement to existi...
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• (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
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Chasse`pot' noun [ From the French inventor, A. A.
Chassepot .]
(Mil.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
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a breechloading rifle, closed with a sliding bolt, introduced into the French army after 1866.
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