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Privat_ (August 18, 1870) a first and second line made a frontal attack and came under fire of the French chassepots, to which their own shorter-ranged rifles could make no effective reply.

Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 Anonymous

They remembered that Napoleon annexed Nice -- Garibaldi's birthplace -- to France, and that the French _chassepots_ at Mentana dispersed Garibaldi and his red shirts bent on capturing the Eternal

The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

In a moment the batteries, vomiting flames, were reached with a loud hurrah, and the gunners cut down at their guns, when the whole brigade, which had now got into one line, charged the long lines of infantry in rear, who received them with a heavy fire from their chassepots.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various

But, above, the stars shone down peacefully from the blue vault of heaven on the terrible picture of carnage below; and, as the smoke of the gunpowder cleared away, the different points of the struggle could be clearly picked out by reason of the heaps of corpses and dead horses, piled beneath overturned cannon and broken limbers, shattered needle - guns and chassepots, all of which were scattered around pell-mell in endless profusion.

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

In the Place de la Concorde and the Rue de Rivoli, all down to the Trocadéro, reserves were in waiting with their chassepots stacked on each side of the road, but there was no fighting along the Quays.

The Insurrection in Paris

Flash on flash the explosions followed each other, lighting the gloom with a wavering yellow glare, and on the terrace the gatling whirred and spluttered its slender streams of flame, while the treble crash of the chassepots roared accompaniment.

Lorraine A romance 1899

Rickerl cast a startled glance over his shoulder, where, from the thickets, a dozen franc-tireurs were springing towards him, shouting and shaking their chassepots.

Lorraine A romance 1899

As he seized the horse's head and started up the slope again, firing broke out among the thickets close at hand; the infantry swung out to the west in a long sagging line; the chassepots began banging right and left.

Lorraine A romance 1899

So with the still bloody butts of their _chassepots_ they made an entrance.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

Here infantry were assembled, with their chassepots in readiness.

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887