mitrailleuse

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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 Helmuth, Count

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)

We examined the mitrailleuse, of which the world has heard so much of late.

From E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life by Roe, Mary A.

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)

Two 4-pounder batteries, one mitrailleuse battery. 3rd Infantry Division: General Raoult. 1st Brigade: General L'Heriller. 8th Chasseur battalion. 2nd Zouave regiment. 36th Line regiment. 2nd Brigade: General Lef�vre. 2nd regiment of Turcos. 48th Line regiment.

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