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Gatling gun
Gatling gun
	1876 Gatling gun kept at Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Type	Rapid-fire gun, hand-cranked machine gun
Place of origin	United States
Service history
In service	1862–1911
Used by	See Users
Wars	American Civil War; Boshin War; Indian Wars; Franco-Prussian War; Anglo-Ashanti War; Ethiopian-Egyptian War; Haw Wars; Satsuma Rebellion; Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878); Second Anglo-Afghan War; Anglo-Zulu War; War of the Pacific; Argentine Civil Wars; Russian conquest of Central Asia; Kiriji War; Mahdist War; Anglo-Egyptian War; Colombian Civil war of 1884-1885; Northwest Rebellion; Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887-1889; Revolution of the Park; Argentine Revolution of 1893; Revolta da Armada; First Sino-Japanese War; Second Matabele War; Spanish–American War; Philippine–American War; Boxer Rebellion; Colorado Labor Wars; Russo-Japanese War (limited); 1907 Honduran Conflict; Mexican Revolution; Battle of Blair Mountain
Production history
Designer	Richard Jordan Gatling
Designed	1861
Manufacturer	Eagle Iron Works; Cooper Firearms Manufacturing Company; Colt Manufacturing Company; American Ordnance Company
Produced	1862–1903
Specifications
Mass	170 lb (77.2 kg)
Length	42.5 in (1,079 mm)
length	26.5 in (673 mm)
Crew	4

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The Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling. It is an early machine gun and a forerunner of the modern electric motor-driven rotary cannon.

The Gatling gun's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated cooling and synchronized the firing-reloading sequence. As the handwheel is cranked, the barrels rotate, and each barrel sequentially loads a single cartridge from a top-mounted magazine, fires off the shot when it reaches a set position (usually at 4 o'clock), then ejects the spent casing out of the left side at the bottom, after which the barrel is empty and allowed to cool until rotated back to the top position and gravity-fed another new round. This configuration eliminated the need for a single reciprocating bolt design and allowed higher rates of fire to be achieved without the barrels overheating quickly.

One of the best-known early rapid-fire firearms, the Gatling gun saw occasional use by the U.S. forces during the American Civil War, which was the first time it was employed in combat. It was later used in numerous military conflicts, including the Boshin War, the Anglo-Zulu War, and the assault on San Juan Hill during the Spanish–American War.^[16] It was also used by the Pennsylvania militia in episodes of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, specifically in Pittsburgh. Gatling guns were also mounted aboard ships.^[17]

Design

The Gatling gun is operated by a hand-crank mechanism, with six barrels revolving around a central shaft (although some models had as many as ten). Each barrel fires once per revolution at about the same position. The barrels, a carrier, and a lock cylinder were separate and all mounted on a solid plate revolving around a central shaft, mounted on an oblong fixed frame. Turning the crank rotated the shaft. The carrier was grooved and the lock cylinder was drilled with holes corresponding to the barrels.

The casing was partitioned, and through this opening, the barrel shaft was journaled. In front of the casing was a cam with spiral surfaces. The cam imparted a reciprocating motion to the locks when the gun rotated. Also in the casing was a cocking ring with projections to cock and fire the gun. Each barrel had a single lock, working in the lock cylinder on a line with the barrel. The lock cylinder was encased and joined to the frame. Early models had a fibrous matting stuffed in among the barrels, which could be soaked with water to cool the barrels down. Later models eliminated the matting jacketing as being unnecessary.

Cartridges, held in a hopper, dropped individually into the grooves of the carrier. The lock was simultaneously forced by the cam to move forward and load the cartridge, and when the cam was at its highest point, the cocking ring freed the lock and fired the cartridge. After the cartridge was fired the continuing action of the cam drew back the lock bringing with it the spent casing which then dropped to the ground.

The grouped barrel concept had been explored by inventors since the 18th century, but poor engineering and the lack of a unitary cartridge made previous designs unsuccessful. The initial Gatling gun design used self-contained, reloadable steel cylinders with a chamber holding a ball and black-powder charge, and a percussion cap on one end. As the barrels rotated, these steel cylinders dropped into place, were fired, and were then ejected from the gun. The innovative features of the Gatling gun were its independent firing mechanism for each barrel and the simultaneous action of the locks, barrels, carrier, and breech.

The ammunition that Gatling eventually implemented was a paper cartridge charged with black powder and primed with a percussion cap because self-contained brass cartridges were not yet fully developed and available. The shells were gravity-fed into the breech through a hopper or simple box "magazine" with an unsprung gravity follower on top of the gun. Each barrel had its own firing mechanism.

Despite self-contained brass cartridges replacing the paper cartridge in the 1860s, it wasn't until the Model 1881 that Gatling switched to the 'Bruce'-style feed system (U.S. Patents 247,158 and 343,532) that accepted two rows of .45-70 cartridges. While one row was being fed into the gun, the other could be reloaded, thus allowing sustained fire. The final gun required four operators. By 1886, the gun was capable of firing more than 400 rounds per minute.

The smallest-caliber gun also had a Broadwell drum feed in place of the curved box of the other guns. The drum, named after L. W. Broadwell, an agent for Gatling's company, comprised twenty stacks of rounds arranged around a central axis, like the spokes of a wheel, each holding twenty cartridges with the bullet noses oriented toward the central axis. This invention was patented in U. S. 110,338. As each stack emptied, the drum was manually rotated to bring a new stack into use until all 400 rounds had been fired. A more common variant had 240 rounds in twenty stands of fifteen.

By 1893, the Gatling was adapted to take the new .30 Army smokeless cartridge. The new M1893 guns featured six barrels, later increased to ten barrels, and were capable of a maximum (initial) rate of fire of 800–900 rounds per minute, though 600 rpm was recommended for continuous fire.^[15]^[18] Dr. Gatling later used examples of the M1893 powered by electric motor and belt to drive the crank.^[19] Tests demonstrated the electric Gatling could fire bursts of up to 1,500 rpm.

The M1893, with minor revisions, became the M1895, and 94 guns were produced for the U.S. Army by Colt. Four M1895 Gatlings under Lt. John H. Parker saw considerable combat during the Santiago campaign in Cuba in 1898. The M1895 was designed to accept only the Bruce feeder. All previous models were unpainted, but the M1895 was painted olive drab green, with some parts left blued.

The Model 1900 was very similar to the model 1895, but with only a few components finished in O.D. green. The U.S. Army purchased several M1900s. All Gatling Models 1895–1903 could be mounted on an armored field carriage. In 1903, the Army converted its M1900 guns into .30 Army to fit the new .30-03 cartridge (standardized for the M1903 Springfield rifle) as the M1903. The later M1903-'06 was an M1903 converted to .30-06. This conversion was principally carried out at the Army's Springfield Armory arsenal repair shops. All models of Gatling guns were declared obsolete by the U.S. military in 1911, after 45 years of service.^[20]

The original Gatling gun was a field weapon that used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose (no links or belt) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper. The Gatling gun's innovation lay in the use of multiple barrels to limit overheating, a rotating mechanism, and a gravity-feed reloading system, which allowed unskilled operators to achieve a relatively high rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute.^[21]

Although the first Gatling gun was capable of firing continuously, it required a person to crank it; therefore it was not a true automatic weapon. The Maxim gun, invented and patented in 1883, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon. Nonetheless, the Gatling gun represented a huge leap in firearm technology.

Before the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to military forces capable of firing many projectiles in a short period of time were mass-firing volley weapons, like the Belgian and French mitrailleuse of the 1860s and 1870s, and field cannons firing canister shot, much like an upsized shotgun. The latter was widely used during and after the Napoleonic Wars. Although the maximum rate of fire was increased by firing multiple projectiles simultaneously, these weapons still needed to be reloaded after each discharge, which for multi-barrel systems like the mitrailleuse was cumbersome and time-consuming. This negated much of the advantage of their high rate of fire per discharge, making them much less powerful on the battlefield. In comparison, the Gatling gun offered a rapid and continuous rate of fire without having to be manually reloaded by opening the breech.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of artillery pieces and were often perceived as a replacement for cannons firing grapeshot or canister shot.^[22] Compared with earlier weapons such as the mitrailleuse, which required manual reloading, the Gatling gun was more reliable and easier to operate and had a lower, but continuous rate of fire. The large wheels required to move these guns around required a high firing position, which increased the vulnerability of their crews.^[22]

Sustained firing of black powder cartridges generated a cloud of smoke, making concealment impossible until smokeless powder became available in the late 19th century.^[23] When operators were firing Gatling guns against troops of industrialized nations, they were at risk, being vulnerable to artillery they could not reach and snipers they could not see.^[22]

History

Patent drawing for R. J. Gatling's "battery gun", 9 May 1865

The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented on November 4, 1862.^[24]^[21] Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease.^[25]

United States and South America

The US Army adopted Gatling guns in several calibers, including .42 caliber, .45-70, .50 caliber, 1 inch, and (M1893 and later) .30 Army, with conversions of M1900 weapons to .30-03 and .30-06.^[26]^[27] The .45-70 weapon was also mounted on some US Navy ships of the 1880s and 1890s.^[28]

British manufacturer James George Accles, previously employed by Colt 1867–1886, developed a modified Gatling gun circa 1888 known as the Accles Machine Gun.^[29] Circa 1895 the American Ordnance Company acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute this weapon in the Americas. It was trialed by the US Navy in December 1895, and was said to be the only weapon to complete the trial out of five competing weapons, but was apparently not adopted by US forces.^[30]

The Gatling gun was first used in warfare during the American Civil War. Twelve of the guns were purchased personally by Union commanders and used in the trenches during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864—April 1865).^[31] Eight other Gatling guns were fitted on gunboats.^[32] The gun was not accepted by the American Army until 1866 when a sales representative of the manufacturing company demonstrated it in combat.^[22]

On July 17, 1863, Gatling guns were purportedly used to overawe New York anti-draft rioters.^[33] Two were brought by a Pennsylvania National Guard unit from Philadelphia to use against strikers in Pittsburgh.

Gatling guns were famously not used at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as "Custer's Last Stand", when Gen. George Armstrong Custer chose not to bring Gatling guns with his main force.

In April 1867, a Gatling gun was purchased for the Argentine Army by minister Domingo F. Sarmiento under instructions from president Bartolomé Mitre.^[34]

Captain Luis Germán Astete of the Peruvian Navy took with him dozens of Gatling guns from the United States to Peru in December 1879 during the Peru-Chile War of the Pacific. Gatling guns were used by the Peruvian Navy and Army, especially in the Battle of Tacna (May 1880) and the Battle of San Juan (January 1881) against the invading Chilean Army.

In 1888 the SS Ozama smuggled a number of Gatling guns into Haiti^[35]

In 1907 Gatling guns were used by Nicaragua in the battle of Namasique, largely manned by American mercenaries^[36]

Gatling guns were kept in store by coal companies and used during the Battle of Blair Mountain;^[37] In September 1 a group of miners looted one of these guns and assaulted a spot called Craddock Fork. Opposing forces fought back with a machine gun, but after three hours of heavy fire, their weapon jammed. The miners surged forward and briefly broke the defensive line, but were repulsed by another machine gun nest located further up the ridge.^[38]

Africa and Asia

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by defeating indigenous warriors mounting massed attacks, including the Zulu, the Bedouin, and the Mahdists.^[22] Imperial Russia purchased 400 Gatling guns and used them against Turkmen cavalry and other nomads of central Asia.^[39] The British Army first deployed the Gatling gun in 1873-74 during the Anglo-Ashanti wars, and extensively during the last actions of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu war.^[40] The Royal Navy used Gatling guns during the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.^[23]

Gatling guns were used by Egyptian forces both on sea and land, and saw combat in Sudan and Abyssinia. Isma'il Pasha ordered 120 Colt 1865 six-barrel Gatling guns; after being convinced by Shahine Pasha who witnessed Gatling gun trials at Shoeburyness in 1866. In 1872 a few ''camel'' guns were purchased, these were smaller and used a tripod instead of the carriage. During the Siege of Khartoum an Egyptian Gatling gun aided by a telescope was able to target Sudanese artillery crews from a distance of 2,000 yards.^[41]

Gatling guns were imported by some states in Nigeria. They were used during the Kalabari Civil war of 1879–83,^[42] the Abbi House bought one from King Jaja of Opobo and it may have been used in canoe warfare.^[43] The Ijesha used a Gatling gun against the Ibadan during the early 1880s.^[42] In 1882 the Bonny used a Gatling gun during an attack on New Calabar.^[44]

By 1880 Siam had imported an unknown number of Gatlings. By 1885 the kingdom had a Gatling Gun regiment of 600 men; those weapons were possibly used in the Haw Wars. They were also seen among Prince Bigit's escort in 1886.^[45]

The Korean Empire possessed a number of Gatlings. Six had been imported in 1884, by 1891 it had a battery of fourteen guns and in 1894 the army's two American drilled regiments had as many as 40 Gatlings and practiced regularly (Supposedly because the noise pleased Emperor Gojong). Some of them were deployed to defend the approaches of the capital during the Donghak Rebellion, but there is no evidence they saw combat.^[46]

British North America

Lieutenant Arthur L. Howard of the Connecticut National Guard had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns and took a personally owned Gatling gun to the District of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against Métis and First Nations rebels during Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion.^[22]^{[better source needed]}

Spanish–American War

Because of infighting within army ordnance, Gatling guns were used by the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War.^[47] A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling guns in .30 Army, made by Colt's Arms Company, was formed into a separate detachment led by Lt. John "Gatling Gun" Parker.^[48] The detachment proved very effective, supporting the advance of American forces at the Battle of San Juan Hill. Three of the Gatlings with swivel mountings were used with great success against the Spanish defenders.^[15] During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle hills, the three guns fired a total of 18,000 .30 Army rounds in 8+1⁄2 minutes (an average of over 700 rounds per minute per gun of continuous fire) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, causing significant casualties.^[15]^[49]

Despite this successful deployment, the Gatling's weight and cumbersome artillery carriage hindered its ability to keep up with infantry forces over difficult ground, particularly in Cuba, where roads were often little more than jungle footpaths. By this time, the U.S. Marines had been issued the modern tripod-mounted M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun using the 6mm Lee Navy round, which they employed to defeat the Spanish infantry at the battle of Cuzco Wells.

Philippine–American War

Gatling guns were used by the U.S. Army during the Philippine–American War.

One such instance was during the Battle of San Jacinto (1899) (Spanish: Batalla de San Jacinto) which was fought on November 11, 1899, in San Jacinto in the Philippines, between Philippine Republican Army soldiers and American troops.^[50]

The Gatling's weight and artillery carriage hindered its ability to keep up with American troops over uneven terrain, particularly in the Philippines, where outside the cities there were heavily foliaged forests and steep mountain paths.

Further development

After the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil or gas-operated weapons, the approach of using multiple externally powered rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades. However, some examples were developed during the interwar years, but only existed as prototypes or were rarely used. The concept resurfaced after World War II with the development of the Minigun and the M61 Vulcan. Other versions of the Gatling gun were built from the late 20th century to the present, the largest of these being the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger autocannon as used on the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.^{[citation needed]}

Users

Gallery

A Korean Gatling gun from the Donghak Peasant Revolution
Colorado National Guard with Gatling guns during Colorado Labor Wars, 1904
A modern reproduction of the Gatling gun

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External links

Randolph, Captain W. S., 5th US Artillery Service and Description of Gatling Guns, 1878
19th Century Machine Guns
List of Military Gatling & Revolver cannons
Austro-Hungarian Gatling Guns
U.S. patent 36,836 -- Gatling gun
U.S. patent 47,631 -- improved Gatling gun
U.S. patent 112,138 -- revolving battery gun
U.S. patent 125,563 -- improvement in revolving battery guns
U.S. patent 110,338 -- feeder for repeating firearms
[1]
Description of operating principle (with animation) from HowStuffWorks
CGI animated GAU-17/A
Animations and technical descriptions of 1862, 1865 and 1874 models (Requires QuickTime and not suitable for slow-speed links)
Presentation by Keller about Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It at the Printers Row Book Fair, June 8, 2008
The Gatling Gun

[1] Smithurst, Peter, The Gatling Gun: Osprey Publishing (2015)

[2] "How the Samurai Ended During the Satsuma Rebellion".

[3] Sicard, Pedro (1925). Páginas para la historia militar de Colombia: Guerra civil de 1885. Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango: Press of the E.M.G. p. 119.

[4] Finaldi, Giuseppe, "A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907: Europe’s Last Empire"(2016)

[5] "Las Gatling en el Ejercito y Armada Argentina". December 8, 2017.

[6] "Revolucion Radical de 1893".

[7] "ArmasBrasil - Metraladora Gatling".

[SinoJapaneseWar-8] Esposito, Gabriele (2022). Armies of the first Sino-Japanese War 1894-95. Giuseppe Rava. Oxford. ISBN 978-1-4728-5130-7. OCLC 1350351894.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[9] "THE ORDNANCE AND MACHINE GUNS OF THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY 1889 - 1896 Part One: 1889-1891".

[10] "Historical Firearms- The Gatling Gun".

[11] Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, "Anti-personnel Weapons"(2021)

[12] "Guns of Mexico's Freedom Fighters".

[13] Weight listed for Colt's Model 1877 10-barrel gun, w/o carriage or mount.

[14] "Gatling Gun – Facts & Summary". history.com. Archived from the original on February 24, 2016.

[Parker,_John_H._2006-15] Parker, John H. (Lt.), The Gatlings At Santiago, Middlesex, UK: Echo Library (reprinted 2006)

[enc-sjh-16] Chambers, John W. (II) (2000). "San Juan Hill, Battle of". The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Archived from the original on November 26, 2009. Retrieved November 24, 2009.

[17] 1884 Picture of Gatling Gun on board 1875 US warship "Alliance"

[18] U.S. Ordnance Dept., Handbook of the Gatling Gun, Caliber .30 Models of 1895, 1900, and 1903, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, (1905) p. 21

[19] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved September 1, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[20] Wahl and Toppel, 1971, p. 155

[Greeley1872-21] Greeley, Horace; Leon Case (1872). The Great Industries of the United States. J.B. Burr & Hyde. p. 944. ISBN 978-1-85506-627-4.

[proceedings-22] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Emmott, N.W. "The Devil's Watering Pot" United States Naval Institute Proceedings September 1972 p. 70.

[p2-23] Emmott, N.W. "The Devil's Watering Pot" United States Naval Institute Proceedings September 1972 p. 72.

[24] Richard J. Gatling, "Improvement in revolving battery-guns," Archived 2017-01-20 at the Wayback Machine U.S. Patent No. 36,386 (issued: Nov. 4, 1862).

[25] Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, The Gatling Gun, Arco Publishing, 1971, p. 12.

[26] Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, The Gatling Gun, Arco Publishing, 1971, p. 155.

[27] Randolph, Captain W. S., 5th US Artillery Service and Description of Gatling Guns, 1878 Archived 2016-01-31 at the Wayback Machine

[28] Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 457–463. ISBN 978-0-87021-718-0.

[29] History of Accles & Shelvoke from company website

[30] American Ordnance Company (1896). The Driggs-Schroeder System of rapid-fire guns, 2nd edition. Baltimore, MD: The Deutsch Lithographing and Printing Company. pp. Preface, 76.

[31] Civil War Weapons And Equipment by Russ A. Pritchard Jnr.

[civilwarhome-32] "The Gatling Gun In The Civil War". civilwarhome.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2015.

[33] Julia Keller, Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel (2008), p. 168-170

[34] Rauch, George v (January 1, 1999). Conflict in the Southern Cone: The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute with Chile, 1870-1902. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-96347-7.

[35] Bridgeport Morning News, (Bridgeport, Connecticut), Volume 19, #155, December 29, 1888, p. 1, c. 3

[:0-36] Jowett, Phillip, Latin American Wars 1900-1941: Osprey Publishing (2018)

[37] "100 years since the Battle of Blair Mountain". World Socialist Web Site. September 10, 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2022.

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 The '''Gatling gun''' is a rapid-firing [[multiple-barrel firearm]] invented in 1861 by [[Richard Jordan Gatling]]. It is an early [[machine gun]] and a forerunner of the modern [[electric motor]]-driven [[rotary cannon]].
-The Gatling gun's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated cooling and synchronized the firing-reloading sequence. As the handwheel is cranked, the barrels rotate and each barrel sequentially loads a single [[cartridge (firearms)|cartridge]] from a top-mounted [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]], fires off the shot when it reaches a set position (usually at [[clock position|4 o'clock]]), then ejects the spent casing out of the left side at the bottom, after which the barrel is empty and allowed to cool until rotated back to the top position and gravity-fed another new round. This configuration eliminated the need for a single [[reciprocating motion|reciprocating]] [[bolt (firearms)|bolt]] design and allowed higher rates of fire to be achieved without the barrels overheating quickly.
+The Gatling gun's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated cooling and synchronized the firing-reloading sequence. As the handwheel is cranked, the barrels rotate, and each barrel sequentially loads a single [[cartridge (firearms)|cartridge]] from a top-mounted [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]], fires off the shot when it reaches a set position (usually at [[clock position|4 o'clock]]), then ejects the spent casing out of the left side at the bottom, after which the barrel is empty and allowed to cool until rotated back to the top position and gravity-fed another new round. This configuration eliminated the need for a single [[reciprocating motion|reciprocating]] [[bolt (firearms)|bolt]] design and allowed higher rates of fire to be achieved without the barrels overheating quickly.
-One of the best-known early rapid-fire [[firearm]]s, the Gatling gun saw occasional use by the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] [[Union Army|forces]] during the [[American Civil War]], which was the first time it was employed in combat. It was later used in numerous military conflicts, including the [[Boshin War]], the [[Anglo-Zulu War]] and the assault on [[Battle of San Juan Hill|San Juan Hill]] during the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref name="enc-sjh">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O126-SanJuanHillBattleof.html|title=San Juan Hill, Battle of|first=John W. (II)|last=Chambers|work=The Oxford Companion to American Military History|year=2000|access-date=2009-11-24|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126021542/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O126-SanJuanHillBattleof.html|archive-date=2009-11-26}}</ref> It was also used by the Pennsylvania militia in episodes of the [[Great Railroad Strike]] of 1877, specifically in [[Pittsburgh]]. Gatling guns were even mounted aboard ships.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-57000/NH-57130.html 1884 Picture of Gatling Gun on board 1875 US warship "Alliance"]</ref>
+One of the best-known early rapid-fire [[firearm]]s, the Gatling gun saw occasional use by the [[Union (American Civil War)|U.S.]] [[Union Army|forces]] during the [[American Civil War]], which was the first time it was employed in combat. It was later used in numerous military conflicts, including the [[Boshin War]], the [[Anglo-Zulu War]], and the assault on [[Battle of San Juan Hill|San Juan Hill]] during the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref name="enc-sjh">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O126-SanJuanHillBattleof.html|title=San Juan Hill, Battle of|first=John W. (II)|last=Chambers|work=The Oxford Companion to American Military History|year=2000|access-date=2009-11-24|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126021542/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O126-SanJuanHillBattleof.html|archive-date=2009-11-26}}</ref> It was also used by the Pennsylvania militia in episodes of the [[Great Railroad Strike]] of 1877, specifically in [[Pittsburgh]]. Gatling guns were also mounted aboard ships.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-57000/NH-57130.html 1884 Picture of Gatling Gun on board 1875 US warship "Alliance"]</ref>
 == Design ==
-[[file: Gatling Gun 2.jpg|thumb|A modern reproduction of the Gatling gun]]
 [[file: Gatling gun 1865.jpg|thumb|A British 1865 Gatling gun at [[Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum]]]]
 The Gatling gun is operated by a hand-crank mechanism, with six barrels revolving around a central shaft (although some models had as many as ten). Each barrel fires once per revolution at about the same position. The barrels, a carrier, and a lock cylinder were separate and all mounted on a solid plate revolving around a central shaft, mounted on an oblong fixed frame. Turning the crank rotated the shaft. The carrier was grooved and the lock cylinder was drilled with holes corresponding to the barrels.
-The casing was partitioned, and through this opening, the barrel shaft was [[journal (mechanical device)|journal]]ed. In front of the casing was a [[cam]] with spiral surfaces. The cam imparted a reciprocating motion to the locks when the gun rotated. Also in the casing was a cocking ring with projections to cock and fire the gun. Each barrel had a single lock, working in the lock cylinder on a line with the barrel. The lock cylinder was encased and joined to the frame. Early models had a fibrous matting stuffed in among the barrels, which could be soaked with water to cool the barrels down. Later models eliminated the matting jacketing as being unnecessary.
+The casing was partitioned, and through this opening, the barrel shaft was [[journal (mechanical device)|journal]]ed. In front of the casing was a [[Cam (mechanism)|cam]] with spiral surfaces. The cam imparted a reciprocating motion to the locks when the gun rotated. Also in the casing was a cocking ring with projections to cock and fire the gun. Each barrel had a single lock, working in the lock cylinder on a line with the barrel. The lock cylinder was encased and joined to the frame. Early models had a fibrous matting stuffed in among the barrels, which could be soaked with water to cool the barrels down. Later models eliminated the matting jacketing as being unnecessary.
 Cartridges, held in a hopper, dropped individually into the grooves of the carrier. The lock was simultaneously forced by the cam to move forward and load the cartridge, and when the cam was at its highest point, the cocking ring freed the lock and fired the cartridge. After the cartridge was fired the continuing action of the cam drew back the lock bringing with it the spent casing which then dropped to the ground.
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 The smallest-caliber gun also had a Broadwell drum feed in place of the curved box of the other guns. The drum, named after [[Lewis Wells Broadwell|L. W. Broadwell]], an agent for Gatling's company, comprised twenty stacks of rounds arranged around a central axis, like the spokes of a wheel, each holding twenty cartridges with the bullet noses oriented toward the central axis. This invention was patented in U. S. 110,338. As each stack emptied, the drum was manually rotated to bring a new stack into use until all 400 rounds had been fired. A more common variant had 240 rounds in twenty stands of fifteen.
-By 1893, the Gatling was adapted to take the new [[.30-40 Krag|.30 Army]] smokeless cartridge. The new M1893 guns featured six barrels, later increased to ten barrels, and were capable of a maximum (initial) rate of fire of 800–900 rounds per minute, though 600 rpm was recommended for continuous fire.<ref name="Parker, John H. 2006"/><ref>U.S. Ordnance Dept., ''Handbook of the Gatling Gun, Caliber .30 Models of 1895, 1900, and 1903'', Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, (1905) p. 21</ref> Dr. Gatling later used examples of the M1893 powered by electric motor and belt to drive the crank.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2433/eleckeygatling.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725152641/http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2433/eleckeygatling.jpg |archive-date=2011-07-25 }}</ref>  Tests demonstrated the electric Gatling could fire bursts of up to 1,500&nbsp;rpm.
+By 1893, the Gatling was adapted to take the new [[.30-40 Krag|.30 Army]] smokeless cartridge. The new M1893 guns featured six barrels, later increased to ten barrels, and were capable of a maximum (initial) rate of fire of 800–900 rounds per minute, though 600 rpm was recommended for continuous fire.<ref name="Parker, John H. 2006"/><ref>U.S. Ordnance Dept., ''Handbook of the Gatling Gun, Caliber .30 Models of 1895, 1900, and 1903'', Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, (1905) p. 21</ref> Dr. Gatling later used examples of the M1893 powered by electric motor and belt to drive the crank.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2433/eleckeygatling.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725152641/http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2433/eleckeygatling.jpg |archive-date=2011-07-25 }}</ref> Tests demonstrated the electric Gatling could fire bursts of up to 1,500&nbsp;rpm.
-The M1893, with minor revisions, became the M1895, and 94 guns were produced for the U.S. Army by Colt. Four M1895 Gatlings under Lt. [[John Henry Parker (general)|John H. Parker]] saw considerable combat during the Santiago campaign in Cuba in 1898. The M1895 was designed to accept only the Bruce feeder. All previous models were unpainted, but the M1895 was painted olive drab (O.D.) green, with some parts left [[Bluing (steel)|blued]].
+The M1893, with minor revisions, became the M1895, and 94 guns were produced for the U.S. Army by Colt. Four M1895 Gatlings under Lt. [[John Henry Parker (general)|John H. Parker]] saw considerable combat during the Santiago campaign in Cuba in 1898. The M1895 was designed to accept only the Bruce feeder. All previous models were unpainted, but the M1895 was painted olive drab green, with some parts left [[Bluing (steel)|blued]].
 The Model 1900 was very similar to the model 1895, but with only a few components finished in O.D. green. The U.S. Army purchased several M1900s. All Gatling Models 1895–1903 could be mounted on an armored field carriage. In 1903, the Army converted its M1900 guns into .30 Army to fit the new [[.30-03]] cartridge (standardized for the M1903 Springfield rifle) as the M1903. The later M1903-'06 was an M1903 converted to [[.30-06 Springfield|.30-06]]. This conversion was principally carried out at the Army's Springfield Armory arsenal repair shops. All models of Gatling guns were declared obsolete by the U.S. military in 1911, after 45 years of service.<ref>Wahl and Toppel, 1971, p. 155</ref>
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 Although the first Gatling gun was capable of firing continuously, it required a person to crank it; therefore it was not a true [[automatic weapon]]. The [[Maxim gun]], invented and patented in 1883, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon. Nonetheless, the Gatling gun represented a huge leap in [[firearm]] technology.
-Before the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to military forces capable of firing many projectiles in a short space of time were mass-firing [[volley gun|volley weapons]], like the Belgian and French [[mitrailleuse]] of the 1860s and 1870s, and field [[cannon]]s firing [[canister shot]], much like an upsized [[shotgun]]. The latter was widely used during and after the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. Although the maximum [[rate of fire]] was increased by firing multiple projectiles simultaneously, these weapons still needed to be reloaded after each discharge, which for multi-barrel systems like the ''mitrailleuse'' was cumbersome and time-consuming. This negated much of the advantage of their high rate of fire per discharge, making them much less powerful on the battlefield. In comparison, the Gatling gun offered a rapid and continuous rate of fire without having to be manually reloaded by opening the breech.
+Before the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to military forces capable of firing many projectiles in a short period of time were mass-firing [[volley gun|volley weapons]], like the Belgian and French [[mitrailleuse]] of the 1860s and 1870s, and field [[cannon]]s firing [[canister shot]], much like an upsized [[shotgun]]. The latter was widely used during and after the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. Although the maximum [[rate of fire]] was increased by firing multiple projectiles simultaneously, these weapons still needed to be reloaded after each discharge, which for multi-barrel systems like the ''mitrailleuse'' was cumbersome and time-consuming. This negated much of the advantage of their high rate of fire per discharge, making them much less powerful on the battlefield. In comparison, the Gatling gun offered a rapid and continuous rate of fire without having to be manually reloaded by opening the breech.
-Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of [[artillery]] pieces and were often perceived as a replacement for cannons firing [[grapeshot]] or canister shot.<ref name=" proceedings"/>  Compared with earlier weapons such as the ''mitrailleuse,'' which required manual reloading, the Gatling gun was more reliable and easier to operate and had a lower, but continuous rate of fire. The large wheels required to move these guns around required a high firing position, which increased the vulnerability of their crews.<ref name="proceedings"/>
+Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of [[artillery]] pieces and were often perceived as a replacement for cannons firing [[grapeshot]] or canister shot.<ref name=" proceedings"/> Compared with earlier weapons such as the ''mitrailleuse,'' which required manual reloading, the Gatling gun was more reliable and easier to operate and had a lower, but continuous rate of fire. The large wheels required to move these guns around required a high firing position, which increased the vulnerability of their crews.<ref name="proceedings"/>
 Sustained firing of [[black powder]] cartridges generated a cloud of smoke, making concealment impossible until [[smokeless powder]] became available in the late 19th century.<ref name="p2">Emmott, N.W. "The Devil's Watering Pot" ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'' September 1972 p. 72.</ref> When operators were firing Gatling guns against troops of industrialized nations, they were at risk, being vulnerable to artillery they could not reach and [[sniper]]s they could not see.<ref name=" proceedings"/>
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 == History ==
 [[file:GatlingGunDrawing.jpg|thumb|[[Patent drawing]] for R. J. Gatling's "battery gun", 9 May 1865]]
+The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor [[Richard Jordan Gatling|Richard J. Gatling]] in 1861 and patented on November 4, 1862.<ref>Richard J. Gatling, [http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00036836&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D0036836.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F0036836%2526RS%3DPN%2F0036836&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page "Improvement in revolving battery-guns,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120053800/http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00036836&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D0036836.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F0036836%2526RS%3DPN%2F0036836&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page |date=2017-01-20 }} U.S. Patent No. 36,386 (issued: Nov. 4, 1862).</ref><ref name=Greeley1872>{{cite book |title=The Great Industries of the United States |last=Greeley |first=Horace |author-link=Horace Greeley |author2=Leon Case |year=1872 |publisher=J.B. Burr & Hyde |isbn=978-1-85506-627-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatindustrieso00greeuoft/page/944 944] |url=https://archive.org/details/greatindustrieso00greeuoft }}</ref> Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease.<ref>Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, ''The Gatling Gun'', Arco Publishing, 1971, p. 12.</ref>
-The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor [[Richard Jordan Gatling|Dr. Richard J. Gatling]] in 1861 and patented on November 4, 1862.<ref>Richard J. Gatling, [http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00036836&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D0036836.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F0036836%2526RS%3DPN%2F0036836&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page "Improvement in revolving battery-guns,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120053800/http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00036836&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D0036836.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F0036836%2526RS%3DPN%2F0036836&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page |date=2017-01-20 }} U.S. Patent No. 36,386 (issued:  Nov. 4, 1862).</ref><ref name=Greeley1872>{{cite book |title=The Great Industries of the United States |last=Greeley |first=Horace |author-link=Horace Greeley |author2=Leon Case |year=1872 |publisher=J.B. Burr & Hyde |isbn=978-1-85506-627-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatindustrieso00greeuoft/page/944 944] |url=https://archive.org/details/greatindustrieso00greeuoft }}</ref> Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is.<ref>Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, ''The Gatling Gun'', Arco Publishing, 1971.</ref>
+=== United States and South America ===
 The US Army adopted Gatling guns in several calibers, including .42 caliber, [[.45-70]], .50 caliber, 1 inch, and (M1893 and later) [[.30 Army]], with conversions of M1900 weapons to [[.30-03]] and [[.30-06]].<ref>Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, ''The Gatling Gun'', Arco Publishing, 1971, p. 155.</ref><ref>Randolph, Captain W. S., 5th US Artillery [http://www.allworldwars.com/Gatling-Guns-Service-and-Description-1878.html ''Service and Description of Gatling Guns, 1878''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131225717/http://www.allworldwars.com/Gatling-Guns-Service-and-Description-1878.html |date=2016-01-31 }}</ref> The .45-70 weapon was also mounted on some [[US Navy]] ships of the 1880s and 1890s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Friedman| first=Norman |author-link= Norman Friedman |title=U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History | pages = 457–463 |publisher=[[United States Naval Institute]] | year=1984 | location=[[Annapolis, Maryland]] | isbn=978-0-87021-718-0}}</ref>
-British manufacturer James George Accles, previously employed by Colt 1867–1886, developed a modified Gatling gun circa 1888 known as the [[Accles Machine Gun]].<ref>[https://www.accles-shelvoke.com/company/about-accles-shelvoke/history History of Accles & Shelvoke from company website]</ref> Circa 1895 the American Ordnance Company acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute this weapon in the Americas. It was trialed by the US Navy in December 1895, and was said to be the only weapon to complete the trial out of five competing weapons, but was apparently not adopted by US forces.<ref>{{cite book | last = American Ordnance Company | title = The Driggs-Schroeder System of rapid-fire guns, 2nd edition | publisher = The Deutsch Lithographing and Printing Company | year = 1896 | location = Baltimore, MD | pages = Preface, 76 | url = https://archive.org/details/driggsschroeders00amer/page/n10 }}</ref>
+British manufacturer James George Accles, previously employed by Colt 1867–1886, developed a modified Gatling gun circa 1888 known as the Accles Machine Gun.<ref>[https://www.accles-shelvoke.com/company/about-accles-shelvoke/history History of Accles & Shelvoke from company website]</ref> Circa 1895 the [[American Ordnance Company]] acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute this weapon in the Americas. It was trialed by the US Navy in December 1895, and was said to be the only weapon to complete the trial out of five competing weapons, but was apparently not adopted by US forces.<ref>{{cite book | last = American Ordnance Company | title = The Driggs-Schroeder System of rapid-fire guns, 2nd edition | publisher = The Deutsch Lithographing and Printing Company | year = 1896 | location = Baltimore, MD | pages = Preface, 76 | url = https://archive.org/details/driggsschroeders00amer/page/n10 }}</ref>
-=== American Civil War and the Americas ===
 The Gatling gun was first used in warfare during the [[American Civil War]]. Twelve of the guns were purchased personally by Union commanders and used in the trenches during the [[Siege of Petersburg|Siege of Petersburg, Virginia]] (June 1864—April 1865).<ref>'' Civil War Weapons And Equipment'' by Russ A. Pritchard Jnr.</ref> Eight other Gatling guns were fitted on gunboats.<ref name="civilwarhome">{{cite web|url=http://www.civilwarhome.com/gatlinggun.htm|title=The Gatling Gun In The Civil War|publisher=civilwarhome.com|access-date=2015-11-03|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025112639/http://civilwarhome.com/gatlinggun.htm|archive-date=2015-10-25}}</ref> The gun was not accepted by the American Army until 1866 when a sales representative of the manufacturing company demonstrated it in combat.<ref name="proceedings">Emmott, N.W. "The Devil's Watering Pot" ''[[United States Naval Institute]] Proceedings'' September 1972 p. 70.</ref>
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 Captain [[Luis Germán Astete]] of the [[Peruvian Navy]] took with him dozens of Gatling guns from the United States to Peru in December 1879 during the Peru-Chile [[War of the Pacific]]. Gatling guns were used by the Peruvian Navy and Army, especially in the [[Battle of Tacna]] (May 1880) and the [[Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos|Battle of San Juan]] (January 1881) against the invading Chilean Army.
+In 1888 the SS Ozama smuggled a number of Gatling guns into Haiti<ref>''Bridgeport Morning News'', (Bridgeport, Connecticut), Volume 19, #155, December 29, 1888, p. 1, c. 3</ref>
-Lieutenant [[Arthur L. Howard]] of the [[Connecticut National Guard]] had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns and took a personally owned Gatling gun to the [[District of Saskatchewan]], Canada, in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against [[Métis people (Canada)|Métis]] and [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] rebels during [[Louis Riel]]'s [[North-West Rebellion]].<ref name=" proceedings"/>
+In 1907 Gatling guns were used by Nicaragua in the battle of Namasique, largely manned by American mercenaries<ref name=":0" />
+Gatling guns were kept in store by coal companies and used during the [[Battle of Blair Mountain]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=100 years since the Battle of Blair Mountain |url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/10/bmtn-s10.html |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=World Socialist Web Site |date=September 10, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In September 1 a group of miners looted one of these guns and assaulted a spot called Craddock Fork. Opposing forces fought back with a machine gun, but after three hours of heavy fire, their weapon jammed. The miners surged forward and briefly broke the defensive line, but were repulsed by another machine gun nest located further up the ridge.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Andrews |first=Evan |title=The Battle of Blair Mountain |url=https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising-the-battle-of-blair-mountain |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=HISTORY |date=September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
 === Africa and Asia ===
 [[File: Gatling Guns in Action WDL11499 (cropped).png|thumb|left|Two [[British Army]] Gatling guns from the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]]]
+The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by defeating indigenous warriors mounting massed attacks, including the [[Zulu people|Zulu]], the [[Bedouin]], and the [[Mahdist War|Mahdists]].<ref name=" proceedings"/> Imperial [[Russian Empire|Russia]] purchased 400 Gatling guns and used them against [[Turkmen people|Turkmen]] cavalry and other nomads of central Asia.<ref name="p1">Emmott, N.W. "The Devil's Watering Pot" ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'' September 1972 p. 71.</ref> The [[British Army]] first deployed the Gatling gun in 1873-74 during the [[Anglo-Ashanti wars]], and extensively during the last actions of the 1879 [[Anglo-Zulu war]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laband |first1=John |author-link=John Laband|title=Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Maryland, USA |isbn=978-0-8108-6078-0 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pnf1BC_XORoC&pg=PA102}}</ref> The [[Royal Navy]] used Gatling guns during the 1882 [[Anglo-Egyptian War]].<ref name="p2"/>
-[[File: Gatling Gun.jpg|thumb|right|A Korean Gatling gun from the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution]]]]
-The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by defeating indigenous warriors mounting massed attacks, including the [[Zulu people|Zulu]], the [[Bedouin]], and the [[Mahdist War|Mahdists]].<ref name=" proceedings"/> Imperial [[Russian Empire|Russia]] purchased 400 Gatling guns and used them against [[Turkmen people|Turkmen]] cavalry and other nomads of central Asia.<ref name="p1">Emmott, N.W. "The Devil's Watering Pot" ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'' September 1972 p. 71.</ref> The [[British Army]] first deployed the Gatling gun in 1873-74 during the [[Anglo-Ashanti wars]], and extensively during the last actions of the 1879 [[Anglo-Zulu war]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laband |first1=John |author-link=John Laband|title=Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Maryland, USA |isbn=978-0-8108-6078-0 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pnf1BC_XORoC&pg=PA102}}</ref> The [[Royal Navy]] used Gatling guns during the 1882 [[Anglo-Egyptian War]].<ref name="p2"/>  By 1880 [[Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)|Siam]] had imported an unknown number of Gatlings. By 1885 the kingdom had a Gatling Gun regiment of 600 men;  those weapons were possibly used in the [[Haw wars|Haw Wars]]. They were also seen among Prince Bigit's escort in 1886.<ref>{{cite book |last=Heath |first=Ian |title=Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Burma and Indo-China |publisher=Foundry Books |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-90154-306-3 |pages=155 |orig-year=1998}}</ref>
+Gatling guns were used by [[Khedivate of Egypt|Egyptian]] forces both on sea and land, and saw combat in Sudan and Abyssinia. [[Isma'il Pasha]] ordered 120 Colt 1865 six-barrel Gatling guns; after being convinced by Shahine Pasha who witnessed Gatling gun trials at Shoeburyness in 1866. In 1872 a few <nowiki>''</nowiki>camel<nowiki>''</nowiki> guns were purchased, these were smaller and used a tripod instead of the carriage. During the [[Siege of Khartoum]] an Egyptian Gatling gun aided by a telescope was able to target Sudanese artillery crews from a distance of 2,000 yards.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dunn |first=John P. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/808492529 |title=Khedive Ismail's army |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-64595-9 |location=London |oclc=808492529}}</ref>
+Gatling guns were imported by some states in Nigeria. They were used during the Kalabari Civil war of 1879–83,<ref name="Nigeria2" /> the Abbi House bought one from King Jaja of Opobo and it may have been used in canoe warfare.<ref name=Nigeria1 /> The Ijesha used a Gatling gun against the Ibadan during the early 1880s.<ref name=Nigeria2 /> In 1882 the Bonny used a Gatling gun during an attack on New Calabar.<ref name=Nigeria3 />
+By 1880 [[Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)|Siam]] had imported an unknown number of Gatlings. By 1885 the kingdom had a Gatling Gun regiment of 600 men; those weapons were possibly used in the [[Haw wars|Haw Wars]]. They were also seen among Prince Bigit's escort in 1886.<ref>{{cite book |last=Heath |first=Ian |title=Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Burma and Indo-China |publisher=Foundry Books |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-90154-306-3 |pages=155 |orig-year=1998}}</ref>
+The [[Korean Empire]] possessed a number of Gatlings. Six had been imported in 1884, by 1891 it had a battery of fourteen guns and in 1894 the army's two American drilled regiments had as many as 40 Gatlings and practiced regularly (Supposedly because the noise pleased [[Gojong of Korea|Emperor Gojong]]). Some of them were deployed to defend the approaches of the capital during the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution|Donghak Rebellion]], but there is no evidence they saw combat.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Heath |first=Ian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50089869 |title=Armies of the nineteenth century. Asia : organisation, warfare, dress, and weapons |year=1998 |publisher=Foundry Books |isbn=1-901543-01-3 |location=St. Peter Port, Guernsey |oclc=50089869}}</ref>
+=== British North America ===
+Lieutenant [[Arthur L. Howard]] of the [[Connecticut National Guard]] had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns and took a personally owned Gatling gun to the [[District of Saskatchewan]], Canada, in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against [[Métis people (Canada)|Métis]] and [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] rebels during [[Louis Riel]]'s [[North-West Rebellion]].<ref name=" proceedings"/>{{better source needed|date=November 2024}}
 === Spanish–American War ===
 {{Further|Spanish–American War}}
-Because of infighting within army ordnance, Gatling guns were used by the U.S. Army during the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref name="spanamwar">{{cite web|url=http://www.spanamwar.com/Gatling.htm|title=Gatling|author=Patrick McSherry|publisher=spanamwar.com|access-date=2015-11-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509033232/http://www.spanamwar.com/Gatling.htm|archive-date=2018-05-09}}</ref> A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling guns in [[.30-40 Krag|.30 Army]], made by [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt's Arms Company]], was formed into a separate detachment led by [[John Henry Parker (General)|Lt. John "Gatling Gun" Parker]].<ref>Parker, John H. (Lt.), ''History of the Gatling Gun Detachment'', Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. (1898), pp. 20, 23–32</ref> The detachment proved very effective, supporting the advance of American forces at the [[Battle of San Juan Hill]]. Three of the Gatlings with swivel mountings were used with great success against the Spanish defenders.<ref name=" Parker, John H. 2006">Parker, John H. (Lt.), ''The Gatlings At Santiago'', Middlesex, UK: Echo Library (reprinted 2006)</ref> During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle hills, the three guns fired a total of 18,000 .30 Army rounds in {{frac|8|1|2}} minutes (an average of over 700 rounds per minute per gun of continuous fire) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.<ref name=" Parker, John H. 2006"/><ref>Parker, John H.: Cranked by hand at its highest speed until the first magazine of ammunition had been emptied, the M1895 .30 Gatling Gun had an initial rate of fire of 800–900 rounds per minute.</ref>
+Because of infighting within army ordnance, Gatling guns were used by the U.S. Army during the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref name="spanamwar">{{cite web|url=http://www.spanamwar.com/Gatling.htm|title=Gatling|author=Patrick McSherry|publisher=spanamwar.com|access-date=2015-11-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509033232/http://www.spanamwar.com/Gatling.htm|archive-date=2018-05-09}}</ref> A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling guns in [[.30-40 Krag|.30 Army]], made by [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt's Arms Company]], was formed into a separate detachment led by [[John Henry Parker (General)|Lt. John "Gatling Gun" Parker]].<ref>Parker, John H. (Lt.), ''History of the Gatling Gun Detachment'', Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. (1898), pp. 20, 23–32</ref> The detachment proved very effective, supporting the advance of American forces at the [[Battle of San Juan Hill]]. Three of the Gatlings with swivel mountings were used with great success against the Spanish defenders.<ref name=" Parker, John H. 2006">Parker, John H. (Lt.), ''The Gatlings At Santiago'', Middlesex, UK: Echo Library (reprinted 2006)</ref> During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle hills, the three guns fired a total of 18,000 .30 Army rounds in {{frac|8|1|2}} minutes (an average of over 700 rounds per minute per gun of continuous fire) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, causing significant casualties.<ref name=" Parker, John H. 2006"/><ref>Parker, John H.: Cranked by hand at its highest speed until the first magazine of ammunition had been emptied, the M1895 .30 Gatling Gun had an initial rate of fire of 800–900 rounds per minute.</ref>
-Despite this remarkable achievement, the Gatling's weight and cumbersome artillery carriage hindered its ability to keep up with infantry forces over difficult ground, particularly in Cuba, where roads were often little more than jungle footpaths. By this time, the [[U.S. Marines]] had been issued the modern tripod-mounted [[M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun]] using the [[6mm Lee Navy]] round, which they employed to defeat the Spanish infantry at the battle of [[1898 invasion of Guantánamo Bay#Assault on Cuzco Wells|Cuzco Wells]].
+Despite this successful deployment, the Gatling's weight and cumbersome artillery carriage hindered its ability to keep up with infantry forces over difficult ground, particularly in Cuba, where roads were often little more than jungle footpaths. By this time, the [[U.S. Marines]] had been issued the modern tripod-mounted [[M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun]] using the [[6mm Lee Navy]] round, which they employed to defeat the Spanish infantry at the battle of [[1898 invasion of Guantánamo Bay#Assault on Cuzco Wells|Cuzco Wells]].
 === Philippine–American War ===
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 Gatling guns were used by the U.S. Army during the [[Philippine–American War]].
-One such instance was during the [[Battle of San Jacinto (1899)]] ({{lang-es|Batalla de San Jacinto}}) which was fought on November 11, 1899, in [[San Jacinto, Pangasinan|San Jacinto]] in the [[Philippines]], between [[Philippine Republican Army]] soldiers and American troops.<ref>Linn, B. M., 2000, The Philippine War, 1899–1902, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, {{ISBN|0700612254}}</ref>
+One such instance was during the [[Battle of San Jacinto (1899)]] ({{langx|es|Batalla de San Jacinto}}) which was fought on November 11, 1899, in [[San Jacinto, Pangasinan|San Jacinto]] in the [[Philippines]], between [[Philippine Republican Army]] soldiers and American troops.<ref>Linn, B. M., 2000, The Philippine War, 1899–1902, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, {{ISBN|0700612254}}</ref>
 The Gatling's weight and artillery carriage hindered its ability to keep up with American troops over uneven terrain, particularly in the Philippines, where outside the cities there were heavily foliaged forests and steep mountain paths.
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 {{main|Minigun|Rotary cannon}}
-After the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil or gas-operated weapons, the approach of using multiple externally powered rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades. However, some examples were developed during the interwar years, but only existed as prototypes or were rarely used. The concept resurfaced after World War II with the development of the [[Minigun]] and the [[M61 Vulcan]]. Many other versions of the Gatling gun were built from the late 20th century to the present, the largest of these being the 30mm [[GAU-8 Avenger]] autocannon as used on the [[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II]].
+After the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil or gas-operated weapons, the approach of using multiple externally powered rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades. However, some examples were developed during the interwar years, but only existed as prototypes or were rarely used. The concept resurfaced after World War II with the development of the [[Minigun]] and the [[M61 Vulcan]]. Other versions of the Gatling gun were built from the late 20th century to the present, the largest of these being the 30mm [[GAU-8 Avenger]] autocannon as used on the [[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II]].{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
+==Users==
+*[[Argentina]]
+*[[Austria-Hungary]]
+*[[Brazil]]
+*[[British Empire]]
+*[[Bolivia]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://issuu.com/camilapesse/docs/jornada_antofagasta | title=Jornada de Historia Militar en Antofagasta. Guerra del Pacifico| date=August 30, 2019}}</ref>
+*[[Kingdom of Bonny]]<ref name=Nigeria3>{{cite web | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18820708.2.40.26 |title=Fighting in New Calabar. Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3716, 8 July 1882, Page 4 (Supplement)}}</ref>
+*[[Chile]]
+*[[Colombia]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://catalogoenlinea.bibliotecanacional.gov.co/client/es_ES/search/asset/74979| title=Manual del manejo del cañon gatling(ametralladora) usado por la guardia colombiana (1874)}}</ref>
+*[[Khedivate of Egypt]]
+*[[France]]
+*[[Haiti]]
+*[[Ijesha|Ijesha Kingdom]]<ref name=Nigeria2>{{cite web | url=https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/thesesdissertations%3A3270/datastream/PDF/view | title=THE PROLIFERATION OF SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS IN INTERNAL CONFLICT: THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN SECURITY IN NIGERIA|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20220905214802/https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/thesesdissertations%3A3270/datastream/PDF/view |archive-date= September 5, 2022}}</ref>
+*[[Kingdom of Italy]]
+*[[Empire of Japan]]
+*[[Kalabari Kingdom]]<ref name=Nigeria1>Smith, R. (1970). The Canoe in West African History. The Journal of African History, 11(4), 515–533. http://www.jstor.org/stable/180919</ref>
+*[[Korean Empire]]
+*[[Liberation Army of the South]]
+*[[Kingdom of Montenegro]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=mont |url=https://carbinesforcollectors.com/mont.html |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=carbinesforcollectors.com}}</ref>
+*[[Morocco]]<ref>Chinn, George Morgan, "The Machine Gun: History, Evolution and Development of Manual, Automatic and Airborne Repeating Weapons, Volume 1" U.S. Government Printing Office, (1951)</ref>
+*[[Nicaragua]]<ref name=":0">Jowett, Phillip, Latin American Wars 1900-1941: Osprey Publishing (2018)</ref>
+*[[Ottoman Empire]]<ref>Drury, Ian, "The Russo-Turkish War 1877": Osprey Publishing (1994)</ref>
+*[[Peru]]
+*[[Qing Empire]]
+*[[Radical Civic Union]]
+*[[Kingdom of Romania]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://historia.ro/sectiune/general/mitralierele-au-intrat-in-dotarea-armatei-romane-589329.html|title=Mitralierele au intrat în dotarea Armatei Române în timpul Războiului de Independență|author=Emil Boboescu|language=ro|website=historia.ro}}</ref>
+*[[Russian Empire]]
+*[[Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)|Siam Empire]]
+*[[Tokugawa Shogunate]]
+*[[Beylik of Tunis]]<ref>Longstaff, F. V. "The Book of the Machine Gun 1917'' (2003)</ref>
+*[[United States]]
+==Gallery==
+<gallery class="center">
+File: Gatling Gun.jpg|A Korean Gatling gun from the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution]]
+File:Troop D of Colorado state militia in Meeker, 1904.png|[[Colorado National Guard]] with Gatling guns during [[Colorado Labor Wars]], 1904
+File: Gatling Gun 2.jpg|A modern reproduction of the Gatling gun
+</gallery>
 == See also ==
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 * {{US patent|125563}} -- ''improvement in revolving battery guns''
 * {{US patent|110338}} -- ''feeder for repeating firearms''
-* [https://books.google.com/patents/US1328230]
+* [https://patents.google.com/patent/US1328230]
 * [http://science.howstuffworks.com/machine-gun4.htm Description of operating principle (with animation) from HowStuffWorks]
 * [http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-cg-animation-shows-gatling-gun-cycle-of-operation CGI animated GAU-17/A]
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+[[Category:1861 introductions]]
 [[Category:Early machine guns]]
 [[Category:Multi-barrel machine guns]]

Weapons of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations 1722–1965
Handguns	Beaumont–Adams revolver Enfield revolver Webley Revolver Mk. I–VI Enfield No. 2 revolver Browning Hi-Power
Rifles, carbines	Brown Bess musket Ferguson rifle Nock gun Baker rifle Brunswick rifle Enfield 1853 rifle-musket Snider–Enfield Martini–Henry Martini–Enfield Lee–Metford Lee–Enfield Ross rifle Lee–Enfield No.5 Mk.I "jungle carbine" Howell Automatic Rifle Huot Automatic Rifle Rieder Automatic Rifle De Lisle Commando carbine L1A1 SLR
Submachine guns	Lanchester Sten Owen gun Sterling L2 F1 submachine gun Thompson submachine gun
Rapid-fire	Nordenfelt gun Gatling gun Gardner gun Maxim gun QF 2 pdr "Pom-Pom" Vickers gun Lewis gun Vickers–Berthier Vickers K machine gun Charlton Automatic Rifle Besa Besal Bren gun L7 (machine gun)
Anti-tank	Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55 in, Boys PIAT 2 pdr anti-tank gun 6 pdr anti-tank gun 17 pdr anti-tank gun L6 Wombat
Field guns, others	25 pdr field gun Congreve rocket SBML 2-inch mortar Ordnance ML 3 inch mortar No.2 "Lifebuoy" flamethrower Stokes mortar OTO Melara Mod 56