He pointed at the ancient chassepot rifle that hung on the kitchen wall.

They did not get the excellent French chassepot rifle.

Soon after, the breech-loading Chassepot system was adopted by the French army.

The German casualties were relatively high due to the advance and the effectiveness of the chassepot rifle.

The battle at first appeared to favor the French with their superior Chassepot rifle.

It was fired by the Chassepot's needle (a sharply pointed firing pin) upon pressing the trigger.

He also was able to rearm the whole of the army with the chassepot rifle, but not the Garde Mobile.

The Chassepot used a combustible paper cartridge holding an 11mm (.43 inch) round-headed cylindrical lead bullet.

In most cases, the French receiver markings on these German-captured Chassepot rifles were erased.

The most common rifles in the army were the French Chassepot and the Minié rifles.

After the Satsuma rebellion, Japan relied extensively on the French Chassepot.

The Mauser rifle was based on the earlier Chassepot and had an improved rotating bolt system for breechloaders.

Otherwise, the Gras rifle was basically identical in outward appearance to the Chassepot rifle.

Although the Prussians won the war the Chassepot proved superior in virtually all respects compared to the needle-gun, which was slowly becoming obsolete.

However, about 100,000 Chassepot rifles were engaged in combat in contrast with the less than 200 Reffye mitrailleuses used in battle at any given time.

The French transformed the 11mm Chassepot into a metallic cartridge bolt action rifle, the Mle 1874 Gras.

By that time, the gun was fast becoming obsolete, and was outclassed by the French bolt action Mle 1866 Chassepot rifle.

Napoleon III provided Tokugawa Yoshinobu with 2,000 state-of-the-art Chassepot rifles, which he used to equip his personal guard.

This problem was also encountered with the Dreyse needle gun; the French Chassepot solved the leaking-breech problem with the addition of a rubber seal to the bolt.

While most of the Prussians fell under the French Chassepot rifle, most French fell under the Prussian Krupp shells.

Virtually all rifles of the older Chassepot model (Mle 1866) remaining in store were eventually converted to take the 11mm Gras metallic cartridge ammunition (fusil Modèle 1866/74).

Before producing local weapons, Japan had been relying on various imports since the time of the Boshin War, and especially on the French Chassepot after the Satsuma Rebellion.

In 1864, the modern factory was built, new steam-powered machines were installed and the first military standardized bolt action rifle, the Chassepot, was produced from 1866 on, then the Gras rifle after 1874.

While the Chassepot's ballistic performance and firing rates were excellent for the time, burnt paper residues as well as black powder fouling accumulated in the chamber and bolt mechanism after continuous firing.

Large numbers of these captured Chassepot rifles were converted to 11 mm Mauser metallic cartridge and shortened to carbine size in order to serve with German cavalry and artillery until the early 1880s.