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07-26-2018, 12:43 PM
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What revolver is this???
Last week while in the French Army Museum in Les Invalides, Paris, I came across this unique revolver in the Napoleon III area.
Anybody have an idea as to this revolver's maker and other info?
Thanks for looking.
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07-26-2018, 12:59 PM
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That is a Galand revolver. Made in 1870
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07-26-2018, 01:04 PM
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An early example of why France has not won a major military conflict.
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07-26-2018, 02:06 PM
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But helped you to get independent of Great Britain.
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07-26-2018, 05:45 PM
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How true Thuer, and they also took the lions share of the casualties in WWI, along with the Brits. We had it relatively easy.
The Franco-bashing really gets out of hand.
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07-27-2018, 06:59 AM
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About the Galand. It was just funny to see Tuco pick up first a Galand in the gunshop. It was not invented till 1869. But I do love that movie that much I forgiv the period uncorrect guns.
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07-27-2018, 08:44 AM
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Nobody seems to remember that Napoleon won most of his battles, up until Waterloo, of course.
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07-27-2018, 02:28 PM
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An early example of why France has not won a major military conflict.
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Maybe that explains Little Big Horn also. Tom Custer had one of those. A Galand and Sommerville.
He didn't take to LBH though. 
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One of the great mysteries lost to history - Just what revolver did Custer have on him at the LBH? Not that it would have made any difference in the outcome.
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07-28-2018, 05:14 AM
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One of the great mysteries lost to history - Just what revolver did Custer have on him at the LBH? Not that it would have made any difference in the outcome.
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Read an article in "Men At Arms" wher thy were incined for a pair of Webley Buldogs.
For the difference on the outcome. Only if he could have called for "air support". 
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That Galand revolver looks like it was made by a committee that couldn't get along with one another and nobody was in charge.
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