mitrailleuse
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When I went to bed four of the members of that shattered mitrailleuse company climbed three flights of stairs to see that I had a comfortable room.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
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 Count Helmuth
I pointed out to her that nothing more delicate than a mitrailleuse had yet been invented.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
But in time of actual war its personnel was less mixed, and Chapman's letters showed him serving there contentedly as pointer of a mitrailleuse.
From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
The chassepot, a new breech-loading rifle, immensely superior to the Prussian needle-gun, was issued; the artillery trains were thoroughly overhauled, and a new machine-gun, the mitrailleuse, from which much was expected, introduced.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Even as it is they have found enough rifles to arm themselves, but so far we have saved the mitrailleuses and the field artillery.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Supreme General Hushnoly had fully armed the various battalions with mitrailleuses and electric spears, and had furnished all with electric wings.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
The number of cannon and mitrailleuses taken was very considerable, amounting to some hundreds.
From The Insurrection in Paris by Davy (An Englishman)
A fight between them is unequal, and the inequality is not easily overcome, for the German machines are too light for mitrailleuses.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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