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field battery

British  

noun

  1. a small unit of usually four field guns

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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)

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)

Somewhere out toward that winding fringe of timber in the low ground five miles away to the south a field battery had sighted the enemy in sufficient force to warrant unlimbering and letting drive.

From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by King, Charles

Before noon a field battery came up to support the battalion, and against that terrifying shrapnel of ours the Boers attempted no further advance.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.