Montigny

At eight hundred yards, a cluster of thirty-seven bullets fired from a Montigny remained in a grouping roughly ten feet high by twelve feet wide.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Montigny claimed a trained crew, well supplied with ammunition, could repeat the cycle as often as twelve times in a minute, for 444 shots in all, discharged in volleys spaced only a few seconds apart.12 His tests, like those of the Gatling gun in Vienna and Karlsruhe, pointed to the lethal consequences for any massed infantry formation caught in the path of rifle bullets concentrated by a machine.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

The most successful result had been credited to a Belgian army captain in 1851, and was modified by Joseph Montigny, a Belgian engineer, who designed a cylinder holding thirty-seven fixed barrels, which were fired in an almost simultaneous sequence by a single clockwise turn of a crank.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Major Fosbery, who helped tweak the design of the Montigny mitrailleuse, had presented his own strong opinions in favor of rapid-fire arms to the same organization in 1870.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

This was more than the shrapnel holes produced by two British artillery pieces (283 and 142 each) or the impacts in a target fired upon by a Montigny mitrailleuse (127).

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

In the late 1860s, while Gatling was busily trying to sell France his improved weapons and personally attending field tests of his weapon in Versailles,13 Montigny convinced Napoleon III, the French emperor, to order that the mitrailleuse be distributed to French troops.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

The king ordered the chevalier de Montigny and five captains to recover Quebec, and to return Champlain as commandant.26

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Note 8: A.R. J. Turgot to Trudaine de Montigny, 14 May 1767, in folder marked "François Gonin, de Rouen teinture et papeterie [chemise 2]," AN F/12/1330. back

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

A.R. J. Turgot remarked to Trudaine de Montigny that Gonin's situation, his knowledge of dye processes and his lack of clear ties to either the academy or the guild, meant that he was less likely to waste time with projects that would turn out to be common knowledge. 8 reference Independent of the constraints or misunderstandings of either institution, he could move forward the work of both.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Her principal owner was Julien de Montigny de la Hottière, a French nobleman of flexible politics, who had been a leader of the Catholic Party in Brittany and later a supporter of the new Bourbon regime in France.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008