mitrailleuse
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Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 3rd Infantry Division: General Dumont. 1st Brigade: General Bordas. 52nd and 72nd Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Bittard des Portes. 82nd and 83rd Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
Placing my camera by the side of the mitrailleuse, I sat by my chauffeur, and we started off for the French lines.
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Geoffrey H. Malins
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 2nd Infantry Division: General Bataille. 1st Brigade: General Pouget. 12th battalion of Chasseurs. 8th and 23rd Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Fauvart-Bastoul. 66th and 67th Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
In French, however, canon is the term applied to the barrel of small arms, and also, as an alternative to mitrailleuse or mitrailleur, to machine guns, as well as to ordnance properly so-called.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
Hope sprang into their minds that they might capture the mitrailleuse abandoned halfway up.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
At Périgueux, the workmen of the railway station seized the mitrailleuses.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
A battery of Montigny mitrailleuses passed, grotesque, hump-backed little engines of destruction.
From The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A heavy battery of the latter had already driven away the French mitrailleuses in front of Pontlieue.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
Here they had erected formidable works, and were reported to be hard at work mounting guns and mitrailleuses there.
From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
