Hotchkiss-Gregoire- 1951
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, an American, was asked by Napoleon II to establish an arms factory in France in 1867. Hotchkiss had plants in New England and New York and had been a major supplier of weapons and ammunition during the Civil War. He patented the Hotchkiss revolving cannon in 1872. By the turn of the […]
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