mitrailleuse
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"At what range is the head of yonder column?" he asked, addressing the captain in charge of the mitrailleuse section.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Jack fumbled for the fastenings of the airplane mitrailleuse, it being his intention to swing the gun free, so that he could turn its 135 muzzle in any quarter desired.
From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Beach, Charles Amory
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 2nd Infantry Division: General Lacretelle. 1st Brigade: General Bernier Maligny. 14th, 20th, and 30th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Marquisan. 3rd and 4th marching regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
These were designed to retard German scouting parties or halt German mitrailleuse automobiles.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher
The climb was a hard and rough accomplishment, with the right flank under mitrailleuse fire from Loos, and with the left exposed to fire from Pit 14A; but it was accomplished far too quickly.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
This was accompanied by successive explosions, resembling the discharge of a battery of mitrailleuses.
From The Secret of the Island by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Altogether the total armament amounts to 40,000 rifles, 104 guns and forty-four mitrailleuses.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
The French had also captured a large amount of booty which included 85 cannon, some of the largest size, 100 mitrailleuses, 26 "Minenwerfer," and stores of ammunition and war material.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
All Vinoy had been able to do was to place a few posts along the routes of Châtillon and Sèvres, and protect the approaches to the Assembly by some mitrailleuses.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
