2-755-827 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'French Mitrailleuse - Section of the Breech (with the Block or Closer Drawn Down)', c1872. Diagram of part of a 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]