#artillery

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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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

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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. ↗

— Abraham Whipple

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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

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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

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In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. ↗

— William Hull

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