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A note concerning the hydraulic brake of the 120, and the way this gun has performed.

phrase is a reference to the hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism of a field gun called " 120mm court Modele 1890 Baquet.

" It was a heavy field-piece, recently introduced into French artillery service ; the mechanism of its hydraulic plus compressed-air short-recoil brake mechanism was quite novel for the time.

But according to Touzin and Vauvillier ( 2006 ) as quoted from Les materiels de l ' Armee Francaise ( Les canons de la Victoire 1914-18 ): "... the 120mm Baquet Mle 1890 was far from being entirely satisfactory ".

As a matter of published record, only two hundred and ten ( 210 ) Mle 1890 120mm Baquet field guns were eventually built.

Conversely, and precisely at the same time as the discovery of the " wikt: bordereau | bordereau " in the summer of 1894, the first successful prototype of the highly advanced long-recoil Mle 1897 Canon de 75 modèle 1897 | French 75 field gun had just been tested in great secrecy.

Ultimately, over 20, 000 French 75's had been built by 1918.