Definition of "field artillery" []

• Artillery other than antiaircraft artillery that is light enough to be mounted for use in the field. (noun)

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• "Burgoyne then ordered 500 Hessians under General Riedesel with light field artillery to attack the American right."
• "Lead missiles were not unknown, but they were designed to be flung from small field artillery over the top of city walls, as at Perusia, and that was a blind exercise of debatable effectiveness."
• "H. C. Whiting—the same Whiting whose official neck Johnston had saved the previous winter—to clear the woods and then, if practicable, to move up field artillery to where it could bombard the landing place and the transports."