field battery
Britishnoun
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Three full companies of sappers and miners, ten mountain howitzers, a field battery, fifty rapid-fire standing rifles, and a complete outfit for throwing lyddite.
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood
When possible to avoid it, a field battery should not be opposed to a battery of position, or, generally, a battery of light guns to one of heavy guns.
From A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry by Francis J. (Francis James) Lippitt
A field battery on the left had a hot time of it just at this moment and drew out of action for a breather quite close to our guns.
From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne
Major Jacob Brown was left in charge of the works opposite Matamoras with the Seventh Regiment of Infantry, Captain Sands’s company of artillery, and Bragg’s field battery.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
Only a few persons were in sight, including a squad of soldiers who were cleaning the guns of a field battery.
From Story of the Aeroplane by C. B. (Charles Burleigh) Galbreath
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