artillery
/ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/ nom C1En français : artillerie
- Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
- An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
- Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
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Dans la bibliothèque
Stoner, the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery.
But the skilful manner in which Dantès had handled the lugger had entirely reassured him; and then, when he saw the light plume of smoke floating above the bastion of the Château d’If, and heard the distant report, he was instantly struck with the idea that he had on board his vessel one whose coming and going, like that of kings, was accompanied with salutes of artillery.
“‘The undersigned Louis-Jacques Beaurepaire, lieutenant-colonel of artillery, Étienne Duchampy, general of brigade, and Claude Lecharpal, keeper of woods and forests, declare, that on the 4th of February, a letter arrived from the Island of Elba, recommending to the kindness and the confidence of the Bonapartist Club, General Flavien de Quesnel, who having served the emperor from 1804 to 1814 was supposed to be devoted to the interests of the Napoleon dynasty, notwithstanding the title of baron which Louis XVIII.
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