mitrailleuse
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Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 4th Infantry Division: General Decaen. 1st Brigade: General de Brauer. 11th Chasseur battalion. 44th and 60th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Sangl�-Ferri�res. 80th and 85th Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
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.
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
The chassepot, a new breech-loading rifle, immensely superior to the Prussian needle-gun, was issued; the artillery trains were thoroughly overhauled, and a new machine-gun, the mitrailleuse, from which much was expected, introduced.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 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)