| Tango01 | 06 Nov 2014 10:49 p.m. PST |
"The machine gun was one of the most vicious military innovations of the late nineteenth century; and in the twentieth century, it slaughtered more individuals than the motor car, Ebola and ISIS put together. However, who had the honour of being first penetrated and killed by a machine gun bullet? The answer depends, of course, on what you define as a machine gun. If you choose the Gatling the answer is an American soldier in the Civil War, if you think of the Montigny mitrailleuse then there were some unlucky Prussians in the Franco-Prussian war… However, most military historians would choose, instead, the Maxim (no hand crank, automatic reloading etc…) as the first machine gun, and the Maxim gun became viable only in 1884. Forget then the Yankees and French-haters with pickelhauben, and look, instead, for events in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century…" link Full article here
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Armand |
| Chokidar | 07 Nov 2014 3:03 a.m. PST |
Probably some poor sod who followed the advice.. "stand over there, you will be safe enough and out of the way…"
:-) |
Frederick  | 07 Nov 2014 7:55 a.m. PST |
"No matter what happens
We have got
The Maxim gun
And they have not" -Hillaire Beloc, The Modern Traveller, 1898 |
| Clays Russians | 07 Nov 2014 8:01 a.m. PST |
Sad humanity had to move the technology of war beyond the percussion musket…….. Jeez what a ridiculous thing for me to say |
| Klebert L Hall | 07 Nov 2014 9:42 a.m. PST |
Nobody.
Tools don't have victims, tool-users do.
-Kle. |
| Tango01 | 07 Nov 2014 10:49 a.m. PST |
LOL! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| capncarp | 07 Nov 2014 6:31 p.m. PST |
Machine-guns don't kill people; the large volume of lead projectiles fired from machine guns kills (lots of) people. |
| Sobieski | 07 Nov 2014 6:52 p.m. PST |
You can do plenty of nasty things to people with a bit of sharp metal on a straight stick. My eugenics programme: breed people with less aggression, higher intelligence, ten-minute orgasms, and heightened aesthetic response. Any support? |
| spontoon | 08 Nov 2014 4:33 p.m. PST |
Ten minute orgasms! We'd never get anything done! |
| John the Greater | 10 Nov 2014 11:11 a.m. PST |
We'd never get anything done We would get at least one thing done… |
| ChrisBBB | 12 Nov 2014 11:06 a.m. PST |
Perhaps it was some unlucky German, facing a Danish "espingol" in 1848? Chris Bloody Big BATTLES!
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| Lion in the Stars | 12 Nov 2014 11:38 a.m. PST |
What about some poor sailor or Marine running afoul of one of those big multi-barrel volley/swivel guns? |
