Picture No | 10215312 |
Date | 1915 |
Description | A Sauterelle |
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A sauterelle, or 'grasshopper', being loaded with grenades by French soldiers. Working on a cross-bow principle, the sauterelle could throw grenades a distance of ninety yards.
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Source | The Illustrated London News, 4 September 1915, page 308 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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