Artillery
Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
The science of artillery or gunnery.
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Artillery Quotations
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman Cousins
The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
Robin Williams
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Stendhal
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.
James Monroe
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
William Godwin
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Zach Wamp
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
Max Beckmann
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb
Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
Ernie Pyle
Artillery Translations
artillery in Danish is artilleri
artillery in Dutch is geschut, artillerie
artillery in French is artillerie
artillery in German is Artillerie {f}
artillery in Portuguese is artilharia
artillery in Swedish is artilleri
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