#artillery

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

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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

— Stendhal

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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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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery. ↗

— Robin Williams

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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

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