field battery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Henry W. Nevinson
A field battery consists of 6 guns or howitzers and 12 ammunition-wagons.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
This officer was to embark with a siege train and field battery, in season to reach his destination when the army would be in the vicinity of Point Isabel.
From History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Brantz Mayer
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 James Longstreet
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 John McElroy
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