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Description:THE EVOLUTION OF THE MACHINE GUN THROUGH 1917, GATLING, HOTCHKISS, MAXIM & MORE; 112 pages, illustrated. The first machine gun that attracted general attention in Europe was the Montigny mitrailleuse, introduced into the French Army by the Emperor Napoleon III on the eve of the war with Prussia in 1870. It was a very clumsy weapon, and the methods in which it was employed were generally so utterly devoid of any tactical knowledge that the result of the experiment was to bring machine guns in general into discredit for some years to come. It appears to have been originally the invention of a Belgian officer, Captain Fafschamps, nearly twenty years before the Franco-German War. He made a rough model and elaborate drawings of his invention, and offered it to M. Montigny, a Belgian engineer and armorer, who had works at Fontaine l'Eveque, and a branch of his gun-making business at Brussels. This was in 1851, and a little later Montigny constructed some machine guns for the defense of the ditches of Belgian fortresses. In the hands of the Montigny firm the gun was greatly improved, but it was not until 1869 that they succeeded in persuading the Emperor Napoleon III to introduce it into the French Army. In the summer of this same year, 1869, Major Fosbery contributed to the journal of the Royal United Institution a paper on "Mitrailleuses and their Place in the Wars of the Future." In 1871 General Gorloff was sent by the Czar's Government to the company's works at Hartford, Connecticut with the mission of purchasing a number of guns constructed to use the Berdan cartridge of the Russian infantry rifle. Four hundred guns were delivered in a few months; most of these were distributed in the garrisons of European Russia, some of them being used for the auxiliary armament of fortresses, and others assigned for field service. One battery was provisionally attached to the cavalry for trial purposes. Forty-eight guns were sent to the Caucasus and twenty-four to Central Asia. The guns were stamped with General Gorloff's name as that of the officer who had superintended their manufacture, with the result that for some years in the Russian Army machine guns were known as Gorloffs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Evolution of the Machine Gun Through 1917: Gatling, Hotchkiss, Maxim. To get started finding The Evolution of the Machine Gun Through 1917: Gatling, Hotchkiss, Maxim, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MACHINE GUN THROUGH 1917, GATLING, HOTCHKISS, MAXIM & MORE; 112 pages, illustrated. The first machine gun that attracted general attention in Europe was the Montigny mitrailleuse, introduced into the French Army by the Emperor Napoleon III on the eve of the war with Prussia in 1870. It was a very clumsy weapon, and the methods in which it was employed were generally so utterly devoid of any tactical knowledge that the result of the experiment was to bring machine guns in general into discredit for some years to come. It appears to have been originally the invention of a Belgian officer, Captain Fafschamps, nearly twenty years before the Franco-German War. He made a rough model and elaborate drawings of his invention, and offered it to M. Montigny, a Belgian engineer and armorer, who had works at Fontaine l'Eveque, and a branch of his gun-making business at Brussels. This was in 1851, and a little later Montigny constructed some machine guns for the defense of the ditches of Belgian fortresses. In the hands of the Montigny firm the gun was greatly improved, but it was not until 1869 that they succeeded in persuading the Emperor Napoleon III to introduce it into the French Army. In the summer of this same year, 1869, Major Fosbery contributed to the journal of the Royal United Institution a paper on "Mitrailleuses and their Place in the Wars of the Future." In 1871 General Gorloff was sent by the Czar's Government to the company's works at Hartford, Connecticut with the mission of purchasing a number of guns constructed to use the Berdan cartridge of the Russian infantry rifle. Four hundred guns were delivered in a few months; most of these were distributed in the garrisons of European Russia, some of them being used for the auxiliary armament of fortresses, and others assigned for field service. One battery was provisionally attached to the cavalry for trial purposes. Forty-eight guns were sent to the Caucasus and twenty-four to Central Asia. The guns were stamped with General Gorloff's name as that of the officer who had superintended their manufacture, with the result that for some years in the Russian Army machine guns were known as Gorloffs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Evolution of the Machine Gun Through 1917: Gatling, Hotchkiss, Maxim. To get started finding The Evolution of the Machine Gun Through 1917: Gatling, Hotchkiss, Maxim, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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