Some might wonder what would have happened if Porter had a couple of machine guns. Others might say that’s ridiculous, because the machine gun wouldn’t be invented until the late 1800s. But was ...

Momentum shifted for British forces after the founding of the Machine Gun Corps (MGC) in late 1915. Expertise in machine-gunnery was now in the hands of a specialist corps, which set about ...

Case in point, this motorcycle that the British Army had built in and around 1919, complete with a sidecar and what looks to be a Vickers water-cooled machine gun. Dope. According to the post on ...

Traditional infantry and cavalry tactics weren't cutting it against the heavy artillery and especially machine guns, calling ...

an estimated 620,000 British and French troops were killed or wounded. A shielded hull was intended to carry troops past deadly machine gun nests and target those positions with heavy fire ...