And they're the eyes and ears of an army" "They're the heels and tail of it," observed Berkley, "and the artillery is the rump.

The artillery of the first years of the seventeenth century was not the terrible enginery of destruction that it has become in the last third of the nineteenth, but

I tried to remember what the English soldiers had said,that the Germans were, if possible, to be pushed east, in which case the artillery at the west must be either the French of English.

A more powerful artillery is a large factor in success, which becomes more marked the more it is possible to distribute the battery on the ship in such a way that all the guns may be simultaneously trained to either side or straight ahead.

Any excess in artillery can be kept on the battlefield in reserve when space is restricted; if the attacking efficiency of the troops is reduced, then artillery becomes a dead weight on the army instead of an aid to victory.

Artillery is the war burglar's jemmy; but it has to batter the house into ruins and blow up the safe and kill most of the family before the burglar can enter.

An attempt was made to hold the ground near the headquarters, but a close musketry-fire from the enemy rendered this also impossiblethe artillery was withdrawnand General Lee, mounting his iron-gray, slowly rode back, accompanied by a number of officers, toward his inner line.