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n. large but transportable armament [syn: heavy weapon , gun , ordnance ] an army unit that uses big guns [syn: artillery unit ] a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" [syn: weapon ]
Usage examples of artillery.
The Allied air forces swept on to the crowded Germans within the long and narrow pocket, and with the artillery inflicted fearful slaughter.
The Minister of War, in a barrack-square allocution to the officers of the artillery regiment he had been inspecting, had declared the national honour sold to foreigners.
Actually assigning troops, reducing number of divisions, filling to strength, adding weapons, and attaching artillery.
Chambersburg only two days when Scott ordered him to wait until some regular infantrymen and several batteries of artillery reached him to give spine to his volunteers.
The general was vainly searching for two batteries of artillery he had thought were shortly to arrive.
Once a division received its supplies, the food had to be divided among the brigades, then further separated and sent to the regiments and artillery batteries and cavalry units.
Soon Federal artillery batteries would be crossing over to this side, and so would wagons with important ammunition and provisions, and ambulances to carry back the wounded.
In his official report General Buller states that were it not for the action of Colonel Long and the subsequent disaster to the artillery he thought that the battle might have been a successful one.
In the beginning history says that Burgrave Frederick tried all the arts of peace, but it was only with the army of Franks and some artillery that he was able to batter down the castles of the robber lords and bring order into Brandenburg.
The second man, an ordnance officer at the proving ground, had spectacularly committed suicide by exploding an atomic artillery shell, vaporizing himself and certain key comrades including his superior officer.
At last, after exposing his person in the most perilous situations, his Prussian majesty drew off his forces from the field of battle, retiring in such good order, in sight of the enemy, as prevented a pursuit, or the loss of his artillery and baggage.
Lead them by the nose, then corral them and pound them with machine guns, manjacks and artillery.
His popularity might have been because he taught in an informal manner, often relating anecdotes and digressing into such topics as astronomy, meteorology, geology, biology, and agronomy, even balloon navigation and the use of artillery.
Bourne cursed again though the artillery was friendly, the guns trying to forestall Molt snipers by pulverizing a site to which they could easily teleport.
Garde Nationale, the Butte Montmartre, to demand the surrender of the artillery pieces that now studded it from top to bottom.