reffye's

Updated: April 30, 2025

Then, too, there was Colonel de Reffye's machine-gun or mitrailleuse, in a sense the forerunner of the Gatling and the Maxim. It was first devised, I think, in 1863, and, according to official statements, some three or four years later there were more than a score of mitrailleuse batteries.

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly - My Days of Adventure : The Fall of France, 1870-71