The detachment proved very effective supporting the advance of American forces at the Battle of San Juan Hill, where three of the Gatlings with swivel mountings were used with great success against the Spanish defenders.

" We were exposed to the Spanish fire, but there was very little because just before we started, why, the Gatling guns opened up at the bottom of the hill, and everybody yelled, “ The Gatlings!

The wheels of the Gatling carriages were removed, and the Gatlings, along with two 7 mm Colt-Browning machine guns ( a gift from Col. Roosevelt ) were placed in breastworks where they could command various sectors of fire.

In the late 19th century, Gatlings, and some other externally powered types such as the Nordenfelt were often made in range of calibers, such as half inch and one inch.

* The Gatling guns used in the game feature not an arrangement of multiple barrels around a central axis, but one singular barrel in a tubular jacket typical for water-cooled machine guns ( in fact, they look much like M1917 Browning machine guns ), and a side-mounted ammunition box for belt-feeding ( in mechanical Gatlings gravity-feeding systems like hopper were used ).

Also, because mechanical Gatlings as they were used in the American West required manual operation by a crank, it would be realistically impossible for Sánchez to fire it and keep it relatively stable at the same time while it is removed from its bracings.

Lt. Parker's three rapid-fire Gatlings provided covering fire for U. S. forces assaulting both San Juan and Kettle Hills.

Returning to the two Gatlings on San Juan Hill, Lt. Parker had the guns relocated near the road to avoid counterbattery fire.

The Gatlings continued to fire until Lt. Parker observed Lt. Ferguson of the 13th Infantry waving a white handkerchief as a signal for the battery to cease firing to avoid causing friendly casualties.

The two Gatlings then opened fire, silencing the Spanish gun at a range of roughly.

Four M1895 Gatlings under Lt. John H. Parker saw considerable combat during the Santiago campaign in Cuba in 1898.

The Gatlings !” and away we went.

The Gatlings just enfiladed the top of those trenches.

Parker set up his three Gatlings approximately from the San Juan Hill blockhouse and its surrounding trenches, occupied by Spanish regulars ; away was another ridgeline, again with Spanish entrenchments.

Parker located the enemy gun and trained the two Gatlings using a powerful set of field glasses.

* Parker, John H. ( Lt .), The Gatlings At Santiago, Middlesex, U. K .: Echo Library ( reprinted 2006 )

* Parker, John H. ( Lt .), The Gatlings At Santiago, Middlesex, U. K .: Echo Library ( reprinted 2006 )

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