A mitrailleuse, grapeshot is a type of volley gun with multiple barrels of rifle calibre that can fire either multiple rounds at once or several rounds in rapid succession, The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun, Situation from the time of The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, Deutsch-Franzoesischer Krieg, 1870-1871, Reproduction of an original woodcut from the year 1885, digital improved

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