In order to correct this problem the _____ was replaced in 1874 by the Gras rifle which used a center fire drawn brass metallic cartridge. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Chassepot]
Sadowa and '66 were child's play to this here, with the fire of the chassepot and that infernal mitrailleuse!. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Since the chassepot has succeeded in reducing the Kabyles once more to a superficial obedience, the courts have been busy with the sentences of their insubordinate leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
The massacre at Mentana demoralized the chassepot. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism] Reference
The bark is jagged by the slashes of venomous chassepot bullets. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
He longed to fire, to use the thin sharp bayonet on his chassepot. From Wordnik.com. [The King in Yellow] Reference
Every second the report of a chassepot rang out, sharp and clear, upon the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall] Reference
He was collecting chassepots, and received five sous for every chassepot he brought in. From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall] Reference
Brandishing his chassepot and expectorating threats and maledictions, he said to his companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.] Reference
Here and there a rifleman stood, his chassepot resting on the iron railing, his face turned towards the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Lorraine A romance] Reference
To this day Paul retains his chassepot as a memento of the happy, careless days he passed, while serving under the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World] Reference
And is it not a significant fact that the terrible chassepot, which made its first bloody experiment upon the halfarmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism] Reference
Prosper thanked him and was moving away to rejoin Silvine when he caught sight of a chassepot, partially buried in a furrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall] Reference
A few days after he had landed in Havre, he was marching away with a chassepot rifle on his shoulder and a knap-sack and blanket on his back. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World] Reference
In vain the Government put forth proclamations assuring the people that the man who made a chassepot rifle was more of a patriot than he who carried one. From Wordnik.com. [France in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
And now Von Steyr had a weapon in his hands -- not a carbine, but a long chassepot-rifle, a relic of the despoiled franc-tireur, dangling from the oak-tree. From Wordnik.com. [Lorraine A romance] Reference
A zouave, in a fit of insubordination, having refused to give up his chassepot, the officer ordered that he be taken away, adding, in the same even tone of voice: "And let him be shot forthwith!". From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall] Reference
Kneeling on the floor, with his chassepot peering out of the narrow aperture of a loophole, he never fired until absolutely certain of his aim; he even told in advance where he intended hitting his living target. From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall] Reference
The Uhlans, their piebald lance-pennants fluttering in the wind, cantered leisurely round the crests of the little knolls which formed the vedette posts, despising mightily the straggling chassepot bullets which were pitched at them from time to time in a desultory way; but which, desultory as they were, now and then brought lance-pennant and its bearer to the ground -- an occurrence invariably followed by a little spurt of lively hostility. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
"Humph! much good, with widows left without their husbands and children fatherless, and the stalwart sons that should have been the help of their mothers made food for French powder and the chassepot!. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
"baptism of fire"; but the first real engagement of the war did not occur till two days later, at Weissembourg, this being succeeded by the terrible battle of Woerth on the 6th of the month, when the German army under the Crown Prince of Prussia crumpled up the forces of Mcmahon, and thus effectually disposed of the previously much-vaunted superiority of the French military system, with its chassepot rifle and mitrailleuse. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
I shall have killed more of them with my diseased cattle than many a soldier with his chassepot! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall] Reference
"we'll have a long march first, and then perhaps one of those confounded chassepot bullets we've heard so much of will put you feet foremost, in. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
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