field battery

noun

1. a small unit of usually four field guns

Example Sentences

A field-battery has either four or six guns, in the United States service usually the latter number, and from 150 to 250 men.

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The English replied with the assistance of a troop of horse Russian success artillery and of a field battery.

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They had been reinforced the day before by a field battery and a squadron and a half of the Light Horse.

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Once they also saw a field battery of glistening guns disappearing up a steep road that led to the south.

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Thirty gunners of a British field battery had just been killed or wounded.

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