Watch team member Jake Auman dig up and preserve this hotchkiss artillery shell from the American civil war! DISCLAIMER: (the shell has already been professionally defused, drilled out, and flushed, it is completely safe) #history #civilwarhistory | Cape Fear Explorers

The French Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun was the last of the Hotchkiss machine gun line born in the late 1800s. Model 1914 machine guns also armed early French combat tanks of the First World War including the famous Renault FT. This Hotchkiss M1914 is the same as the Weald Foundation Renault FT. This was described, by some, as the Wurlitzer design of machine guns in World War I. Here you can see a great video of a Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun owned by Battlefield Vegas. After a little TL