'Sectional Plan of French Mitrailleuse (with the Cartridges in the Barrels and the Closer screwed home)', c1872. Diagram of machine gun used by the French army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. The mitrailleuse was a type of volley gun that could fire rounds at once or in rapid succession. From "The Franco-Prussian War: its causes, incidents and consequences", Volume I, by Captain H M Hozier. [William Mackenzie, London, 1872]

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