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field-artillery

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See artillery.

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Examples

  • Six pieces of mountain artillery, two field-artillery guns, and ten mortars were placed at the Kirigaseki inspector's station.

    SERIAL 17: Kondo Katsusaburo among Taiwan's Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930 Michael Turton 2009

  • Six pieces of mountain artillery, two field-artillery guns, and ten mortars were placed at the Kirigaseki inspector's station.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • No Man's Land (2001) - After a blistering field-artillery salvo, two soldiers-Bosnian Chiki (Branko Djuric) and Serb Nino (Rene Bitorajac) -- find themselves marooned in a trench together while another combatant lies atop a land mine that, if moved or jostled, will blow them to bits.

    John Farr: Best International Films of the Decade So Farr 2008

  • No Man's Land (2001) - After a blistering field-artillery salvo, two soldiers -- Bosnian Chiki and Serb Nino -- find themselves marooned in a trench together while another combatant lies atop a land mine that, if moved, will blow them to bits.

    John Farr: On General Sanchez, Al Gore, Gen "Q," and Unjust Wars 2008

  • A complete train of field-artillery accompanied these troops; and the whole had an air so imposing, that it seemed nothing short of an actual miracle could prevent the ill-equipped, ill-modelled, and tumultuary army of the insurgents from being utterly destroyed.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • He could only impede, not prevent it, having no field-artillery at his disposal, and he therefore remained in

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • In one of them Jellison kept the Stronghold's armory: spare rifles, cartridges, two field-artillery pieces (but no ammunition) that had been part of a National Guard training center before it was flooded out, hand'loading equipment to reload shotgun shells and rifle cartridges, loot recovered from a gunsmith's shop in Porterville.

    Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977

  • The facility with which the Naval Howitzers are handled is apt to cause a misconception of the purposes for which Naval Light Artillery should ordinarily be used on shore; which are, to be landed from boats in such numbers as may be required, or admitted by circumstances, supported by the seamen and marines of a squadron, and not to be assembled as a battery, to replace, or be substituted for, regular field-artillery.

    Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

  • Battle of Bull Run, the whole field-artillery of his command consisted of no more than parts of nine batteries, or thirty pieces of various, and, in some instances, unusual and unserviceable calibres.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

  • Peninsular campaign, more than to any other person, belongs the credit of organizing our admirable system of field-artillery.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

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