mitrailleuse
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Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 2nd Infantry Division: General Rose. 1st Brigade: General Bellecourt. 5th Chasseur battalion. 13th and 43rd Line Regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Pradier. 64th and 98th Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
All 1913 machines designed to carry one or in some cases two mitrailleuse, and special attention is paid to facility for taking down for transport and re-assembling.
From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various
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 Eric Fisher Wood
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 Charles Amory Beach
"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 Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
At six o'clock the 61st reached the Moulineaux, defended by gendarmes; these were soon forced to retreat to Meudon, strongly occupied by a Versaillese brigade entrenched in the villas and provided with mitrailleuses.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
Professor Rackiron agreed, if furnished with men and materials, to turn out sufficient hand mitrailleuses to arm one hundred thousand wayleals in less than a month.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
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
Only a momentary hesitation on the part of the Uhlans saved the situation, for, seeing the convoy advance at full speed, they feared an attack by the already dreaded motor-cars armed with mitrailleuses.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
