mitrailleuse

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Two 4-pounder, two mitrailleuse batteries. 2nd Infantry Division: General Li�bert. 1st Brigade: General Guiomar. 6th Chasseur battalion. 5th and 37th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General de la Bastide. 53rd and 89th Line regiments.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

He provided the St. Florentin redoubt with a mitrailleuse and a piece of 4; that of the Rue Royale, at the entrance of the Place de la Concorde, with two pieces of 12.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.