field battery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The English replied with the assistance of a troop of horse Russian success artillery and of a field battery.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
There was also a mongrel field battery, consisting of one 4-pounder, three 6-pounders, one 12-pounder and two little 4-inch howitzers, the latter being useless on account of having no shells.
From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John
On completing this course he was given a commission as Captain, and placed in command of a field battery, in Brittany.
From Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker)
I found that our field battery there was being shelled from Surprise Hill and its neighbour, but nothing unusual was happening.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.
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 Longstreet, James
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