field battery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Wood, Robert Williams
A field battery came from the direction of Centreville, and tried to make trouble at long range, but was driven off by superior numbers.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
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 Mayer, Brantz
Meanwhile a field battery industriously cut the wire in front of it and other field batteries caused "divarsions," as one says in Ireland, by little side-shows of their own.
From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.
The Royal Canadian Dragoons paraded, and the Thirteenth field battery roared a salute.
From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene)
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