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The 1718 gun with square bullets to convince the Turks of Christian civilization
In 1718, British inventor James Puckle patented what may have been the world's first machine gun - a tripod-mounted, ...
The British Army began World War I with only two machine guns per infantry battalion. One gun was a spare, meaning the effective ratio was one per 1,000 soldiers. Historian John Ellis summarized, “For ...
LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - British machine gun maker Manroy said it has not sold weapons to Libya, in response to a newspaper article which questioned the identity of the Middle East government that ...
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