field battery

British  

noun

1. a small unit of usually four field guns

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field battery

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

He proposed to employ on the enterprise the whole of the mounted infantry, one field battery, the R.E. company, the Northumberland Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles, and a detachment of Cape Police.

From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

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

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

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

A field battery I shall take for service for the army, but the heavy metal must be collected and left here for the present.

From General Scott by Wright, Marcus Joseph