Original French Service Worn Mle 1822 Rifled Percussion Pistol made at Tulle Naval Arsenal Hotchkiss .303 and has degraded over the

and has degraded over the years

and some of these were purchased from US companies

On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot to form the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)

in one place they had a large trailer stacked full and down by the hospital or what they called a hospital was a room stocked full

Original French Service Worn Mle 1822 Rifled Percussion Pistol made at Tulle Naval Arsenal Hotchkiss .303 and has degraded over theOriginal Item: Only One Available. Here we have a very nice "service worn" example of a French Modle 1822 Rifled Percussion pistol, which definitely looks to have seen sea service during its life. Despite this being the Model of 1822 and being marked very faintly with Mle 1822 on the barrel tang, this particular pistol was not produced as a flintlock and then converted. The French retained the same model number for the pistol even after they were