field battery
Britishnoun
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On completing this course he was given a commission as Captain, and placed in command of a field battery, in Brittany.
From Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker)
The English replied with the assistance of a troop of horse Russian success artillery and of a field battery.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
Colonel Hart, who was left at Kingston with his brigade, reported that there were but three regiments of cavalry and a field battery, that engaged General Wheeler on the 24th.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
There was also a mongrel field battery, consisting of one 4-pounder, three 6-pounders, one 12-pounder and two little 4-inch howitzers, the latter being useless on account of having no shells.
From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John
Each division has, in addition, attached to it a detachment of mounted scouts, a section of engineers, a field battery and a heavy battery.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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