field battery

British  

noun

1. a small unit of usually four field guns

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Example Sentences

On the amount of ammunition that should be carried with a field battery there was formerly a considerable diversity of opinion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

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 Galbreath, C. B. (Charles Burleigh)

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.

Wall's field battery and cavalry will be held in reserve on the national road, a little out of view and range of the enemy's batteries.

From General Scott by Wright, Marcus Joseph

Captain Magruder's field battery of twelve and six-pounders, and Lieut.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Mayer, Brantz