It had to endure very heavy loss from the circumstance that the French with their long-range Chassepot rifles could afford to keep out of the effective range of the needle-gun; the artillery suffered exceptionally severely.
As soon as this brigade had deployed under a hot Chassepot and artillery fire between Pave blanc and Malabry, General von Walther (commanding 3rd Bavarian Division) passed to the attack of Plessis-Piquet.
Chassepot bullets even reached the position of the Royal Commander-in-Chief and his personal staff, and Prince Adalbert's horse was shot under him.
The broad meadows of the Sauer all lie within effective range of the commanding slopes on the right bank; and the long-ranging chassepot fire could not but tell heavily.
The principal details of the chassepot are:--weight of rifle, 9 lb.
Count Léon de Chassepot had nothing, I believe, to do with the invention of the guns which bear his name.
The Comte de Chassepot told you the story, did he not, of the Calvary in the cemetery of the Madeleine?
Count deChassepot thinks the Picards in general really want war with Germany.
The bark is jagged by the slashes of venomous chassepot bullets.
A soldier placing his chassepot at his ear blew out his brains.
Odious repetition of those words, "Order reigns in Warsaw," and "The chassepot has done wonders.
Martial law must be applied in all its rigour to the journalists who have placed the torch and the chassepot in the hands of fanatic imbeciles.
As he was still breathing, one of the executioners approached and discharged his chassepot into his ear.
The Commission of Pardons awaited, chassepot in hand, the prey given up to them by the courts-martial.
It was a young girl with a Phrygian cap on her head, a chassepot in her hand, a cartridge-box by her side.
An officer ascended the steps, approached the corpse, and discharged his chassepot into the left temple.
He was collecting chassepots, and received five sous for every chassepot he brought in.
Every second the report of a chassepot rang out, sharp and clear, upon the air.
Brandishing his chassepot and expectorating threats and maledictions, he said to his companion: "Wait!
The young man was wild with excitement; he fired so rapidly that hischassepot burned his fingers, notwithstanding the intense cold.
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.
But when they saw him strip and repair a chassepotwith no more tools than a pocket screw-driver and a nail file, they changed the fashion of their countenances.
And I tell ye that beyond a few instruction sergeants from the artillery, there was divil a man among them who could point a chassepot or lay a piece.
Here and there a rifleman stood, his chassepot resting on the iron railing, his face turned towards the woods.
Its only tenant was a sentinel, yellow with jaundice, who seized hischassepot with shaking hands and called a shrill "Qui Vive?
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.
To this day Paul retains his chassepot as a memento of the happy, careless days he passed, while serving under the Tricolor of France.
And my own mind is a reality from which I can judge by analogy of the realities represented by other men's brains, just as the chassepotin my hand is a reality from which I can judge by analogy of the chassepots represented in the picture.
And then he might put a chassepotinto my hand, and say, 'We could not represent the whole construction of a chassepot in the picture, but you can examine this one, and find it out.
The French were armed with the newchassepot gun, and the Garibaldians were defeated with terrible loss.
It is no longer in the power of the government to maintain an alliance with France, the chassepot gun at Mentana has given it a fatal blow.
Then it occurs that obstacles outside the city must be cleared away, so that the chassepot may have space to reach the Prussians; and many houses and bridges go down.
Under one arm hung a large game-bag, and over the other sloped a chassepot rifle.
Sadowa and '66 were child's play to this here, with the fire of the chassepot and that infernal mitrailleuse!
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