#artillery

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 #been #enough #guns #know

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. ↗

— Stendhal

#close #feminine #found #had #himself

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

#aid #arrested #artillery #been #british

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#artillery #crashing #deep #effect #extraordinary

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

#artillery #august #back #brigade #colleagues

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

#cavalry #department #estimated #force #infantry