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
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
And, best of all, thus far no missile from that popping mitrailleuse of the German had done serious damage to the vitals of his plane.
From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Charles Amory Beach
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 2nd Infantry Division: General de l'Abadie d'Aydroin. 1st Brigade: General Lapasset. 14th Chasseur battalion. 49th and 84th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General de Maussion. 88th and 97th Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
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
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
They usually do, as the majority of German aeronauts carry only rifles; the French now all have mitrailleuses.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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 Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
Jackie, my lad," he said, "no more from this good lady the day—get up the mitrailleuses.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The road had been raked by their mitrailleuses the day before.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair
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