Lebel rifle and its 8mm cal. smokeless cartridge 1888

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Lebel rifle and its 8mm cal. smokeless cartridge 1888

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In 1888, the U.S. War Department Display, at the Cincinnati Exposition, contained details on the French Lebel rifle and its small caliber 'smokeless' cartridge.

The catalog description showed no 'flavor' or hint of how radical and advanced the cartridge and rifle were!
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cinn-cover.jpg (66.82 KiB) Viewed 1912 times
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cinn catalogue title.jpg (33.12 KiB) Viewed 1912 times
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cinn-catalogueofexhib-map.jpg (226.52 KiB) Viewed 1912 times
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cinn-Lebel.jpg (130 KiB) Viewed 1912 times
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cinn lebel cart-ed.jpg (226.83 KiB) Viewed 1912 times

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