Chassepot
id:
chassepot-187-6746795
title:
Chassepot
text:
The Chassepot, officially known as Fusil modèle 1866, was a bolt-action military breechloading rifle. It is famous for having been 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 1864 to breech loading. An improvement to existing military rifles in 1866, the Chassepot marked the commencement of the era of modern bolt action, breech-loading military rifles. The Gras rifle was an adaption
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
French needle gun
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chassepot
date created:
2003-03-16T16:50:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T10:38:24Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1068098","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1068098"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Chassepot-diag.jpg","width":8000,"height":8000}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16