FRENCH CHASSEPOT BAYONET DUG ON THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR BATTLEFIELD OF WORTH FOUGHT IN AUGUST OF 1870

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Item is a French Chassepot bayonet in good relic condition.

Overall, the bayonet meas. approx. 27.00 inches long. The rusted blade looks to be near its full length and meas. 21.75 inches. Blade does exhibit some minor loss along the true edge as well as near the point. There is also a slight bend. Blade and guard are rusted throughout.

Hilt is of heavy cast ribbed brass with a bird head shaped pommel. Brass is in excellent condition but the iron rivets and locking mechanism button are also rusted.

Item has the diggers tag that reads “BATTLE OF WORTH 6 AUG. 1870. NIEDERWALD LOCATION. FRECH CHASSEPOT BAYONET FOUND IN WOODLINE OF NIEDERWALD WHERE FRENCH 96TH REGIMENT MADE CONTACT WITH PRUSSIANS DURING A BAYONET CHARGE.”

The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of Wörth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars). In the second battle, troops from Germany commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William and directed by his chief of staff, General Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, defeated the French under Marshal MacMahon near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River, 6.2 mi north of Haguenau. The victorious Germans suffered a loss of 10,556 killed, wounded, and captured while the French lost 15,096 men.

This relic was dug by a resident of Carlisle, Pennsylvania while stationed in Europe with the US Army in the 1990’s.  [ad] [ph:L]

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