chassepot
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Origin of chassepot
1865–70; named after A. A. Chassepot (1833–1905), French mechanic, who invented it
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The first was evidently a chassepot; one recognized it by the sharp report, which sounds like the crack of a whip, while the other three came from the lancers' carbines.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
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 The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Boyton, Paul
But when they saw him strip and repair a chassepot with no more tools than a pocket screw-driver and a nail file, they changed the fashion of their countenances.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Sadowa and ’66 were child’s play to this here, with the fire of the chassepot and that infernal mitrailleuse!
From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
The young man was wild with excitement; he fired so rapidly that his chassepot burned his fingers, notwithstanding the intense cold.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
The chassepots of Mentana, Rouher’s “Never,” and the hostility of the Catholic empress to any secret article which should open to Italy the gates of the capital, deprived France of her last friend.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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 City.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
My soldiers won't fight, but I have a thousand chassepots.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
They were even denied the relief of discharging their chassepots.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
Here infantry were assembled, with their chassepots in readiness.
From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
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