2-755-831 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'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]