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3 unusual facts about Hotchkiss


Andrew Heermans

With the birth of his son Mr. Heermans and his wife moved to a small house in the country near Hotchkiss, Colorado, where he continued to play, but with country musicians.

Enos T. Hotchkiss

Enos T. Hotchkiss (March 29, 1832 - January 20, 1900) was credited as being the founder of both Lake City, Colorado and Hotchkiss, Colorado.

Hotchkiss, Colorado

Hotchkiss is a Statutory Town in Delta County, Colorado, United States.


Battle of Fuzhou

Both launches were lit up by searchlights on the French ships and attacked with Hotchkiss fire by Duguay-Trouin.

Battles of the Separation Corridor

At 06:20, the Israeli artillery began its barrage, and at 07:00, the Israeli tanks (Cromwell and Hotchkiss of the 82nd Battalion) set out to assist the infantry (Negev Brigade's 7th Battalion), which had already left their bases.

Deluxe Corporation

The company was founded as Deluxe Check Printers in 1915 by W.R. Hotchkiss in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Donald Callander

He received his first Military Cross as an “immediate award for courage and leadership” at La Bassée where, as commander of the battalion's anti-tank platoon, equipped only with three Hotchkiss guns Ordnance QF 2 pounders, they knocked out 21 German tanks from Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, while protecting the retreat of the allies to the beaches during the Battle of Dunkirk.

Douglas Moore

Apart from classical compositions, Moore also composed several popular songs whilst at Yale together with poet and Hotchkiss School mate Archibald MacLeish and later in collaboration with John Jacob Niles.

George Harriman

He began his career in 1923 as an apprentice at the Hotchkiss works of Morris Motors Limited.

Henri Fournier

He then retired for the time being from motorsport to run a car dealer, for first Hotchkiss, then for the Italian marque Itala.

Hotchkiss et Cie

Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and, in the 20th century, automobile manufacturer first established by United States gunsmith Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.

Hotchkiss M1909 Benet–Mercie machine gun

The Australian Light Horse, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and the Imperial Camel Corps used the Hotchkiss in the Desert Campaign in Sinai and Palestine (1915–17).

Hotchkiss machine gun

Hotchkiss moved to France and set up a factory, first at Viviez near Rodez in 1867, then at Saint-Denis near Paris in 1875 manufacturing arms used by the French in the Franco-Prussian war, and later the U.S. government, who deployed them in the 1879 Mill River Campaign against Sitting Bull.

Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū

The ship's light AA armament consisted of seven triple and five twin-gun mounts for license-built Hotchkiss 25 mm Type 96 AA guns.

Jedediah Hotchkiss

General Ulysses S. Grant had Hotchkiss released from custody and returned his maps to him.

LRAC F1

The LRAC F1, officially called Lance-Roquettes AntiChar de 89 mm modèle F1 (89 mm anti-tank rocket launcher model F1) is a French reusable rocket launcher developed by Luchaire Defense SA, and manufactured in cooperation with Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Saint-Étienne and was in the 1970s marketed by Hotchkiss-Brandt.

Morane-Saulnier N

British"?title=Vickers machine gun">Vickers or 7.9 mm Hotchkiss) which used the deflector wedges, first demonstrated on the Morane-Saulnier Type L, in order to fire through the propeller arc.

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

Professor Beatrice Hotchkiss – Professor Hotchkiss is a returning character from Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower.

Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen

Professor Beatrice Hotchkiss - Historian and writer Professor Hotchkiss is your number one resource for everything Egyptian.

Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower

Professor Beatrice Hotchkiss - Professor Hotchkiss is an eccentric woman who was robbed but refuses to leave her room to talk to anyone about what happened.

Natalie Zea

Zea had a few small film roles before joining the cast of NBC daytime soap opera Passions in 2000 as Gwen Hotchkiss, replacing exiting actress Liza Huber.

QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss

A 3-pounder Hotchkiss was used on an improvised mounting in a battle that resulted in Australia's first prisoners of World War 2 being captured in 1940 near Berbera.

Schützenpanzer SPz 11-2 Kurz

The Schützenpanzer SPz 11-2 Kurz armored reconnaissance vehicle was developed for the West German army and was a minor modification of a French designed vehicle (Hotchkiss SP1A).

Shirley Bonne

After My Sister Eileen, Bonne appeared as Susan Hotchkiss in the 1964 episode "Sparrow on the Wire" of the NBC education drama Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus.

SPAD S.XII

The gun chosen for the SPAD 12 was not the old Hotchkiss cannon but a new 37 mm Semi Automatique Moteur Canon (SAMC), built by Puteaux, for which 12 shots were carried.

Zachary Gray

As he explains to Vicky, his family is camping its way home from Hotchkiss, the school from which Zachary has just been expelled, presumably for poor grades.


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