Note 274 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 5)

The 25 barreled mitrailleuse, cal. 13 mm., fired volleys at the rate of 125 rounds per minute. Its fire was considered equivalent to that of 50 needle guns; its weight was 1,485 kg., each of its four horses pulling 371 kg.; its maximum range was 3,000 m. Its most favorable, practical range 500-1,500 m.—A glaring defect of the gun was that fire pauses occurred whenever cartridges were fed into the slot and that the lateral spread of its cone of dispersion was extremely small.

[275] Battle of Gravelotte. Gen. St. W., pp. 705-712, 723 and 781. The employment of three Gatling guns in rear of the park wall of Yoré, during the defense of the plateau of Auvours. (Revue d’artillerie, 1900, p. 297; Gen. St. W., IV, p. 817).