from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A battery of field-guns, comprising 4 smooth-bore guns and 2 howitzers, or 6 rifled or 6 12-pounder guns, with their caissons, forge, and battery-wagon. See
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However, we could not turn them out, though we got a field-battery right up in the firing line, which cracked shrapnel over them as hard as ever it could load and fire.
With Rimington L. March Phillipps
Only the third field-battery and the Naval battery could move, and these were quickly drawn off to a place of safety.
Williams hurled back from his field-battery the iron hail with which the enemy strove to overwhelm him.
"That each field-battery should, if practicable, be composed of six guns."
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, eight hundred strong, and a field-battery and a half-battery (15-pounders), and in the
A field-battery has either four or six guns, in the United States service usually the latter number, and from 150 to 250 men.
The Engraving beneath represents a field-battery gun taking up its position in a canter.
A field-battery of eighteen-pounders firing at this rate will blaze away anywhere from twelve to twenty tons of ammunition a day.
Now we turn out for the rumbling tank-like caterpillars, which slowly creep forward, drawing the big guns up to the front; then we pass a light field-battery.
With Our Soldiers in France Sherwood Eddy 1917
In charge of a field-battery at manoeuvres Feller was at his best.
The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915