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    Henri-Gustave Delvigne (April 10, 1800 in Hamburg – October 18, 1876 in Toulon) was a French soldier and inventor. He became a captain in the French infantry...
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    The service revolver model 1873 Chamelot-Delvigne was the first double-action revolver used by the French Army. It was produced by Manufacture d'armes...
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    was created in the 1830s by French Army captains Montgomery and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. Their design was made to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles,...
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  • Army captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the Chasseurs d'Orléans and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. The bullet was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles...
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    rifled-wall musket using cylindro-conical ammunition. In 1826, Henri-Gustave Delvigne, a French infantry officer, invented a breech with abrupt shoulders...
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    was an improvement of the invention of another Frenchman, Henri-Gustave Delvigne. Delvigne had developed chambered carbines and rampart rifle-muskets...
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    and the Minié rifle in 1849. He succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin. Minié served in a number of African...
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    Tokugawa Nariaki, Japanese daimyō of Mito (d. 1860) April 10 – Henri-Gustave Delvigne, French soldier, weapon inventor (d. 1876) April 15 – James Clark...
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  • Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin (improvement of an earlier invention by Henri-Gustave Delvigne) before 1844. Minié rifle by Claude-Étienne Minié, first reliable...
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  • (PS) 12 seats 1919 Henri Jaspar (Catholic) Jules de Géradon (Catholic) Julien Drèze (Liberal) Paul Tschoffen (Catholic) Isidore Delvigne (PS) 1921 Joseph...
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