Artillery Quotes

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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.

"An unforgettable, great day for us on which so clearly the mercy of God has visited us. At 1:15 in the afternoon, Alix gave birth to a son who was in prayer named Alexei. Everything has happened remarkably soon - for me at least. In the morning, as usual, I visited Mama, then I received a report from Kokovtsov and the artillery officer Kleptov wounded at Wafangou and I went to Alix to have lunch. She was already upstairs, and half an hour later this happy event came about. I have no words worthy enough to be able to thank God for the consolation granted by Him in this year of hard trials. Darling Alix felt quite well. Mama came at 2 and sat long by my side before her first meeting with her new grandchild. At five I went to church service together with the children where the whole family had gathered. Wrote a mass of telegrams." The whole country was overjoyed at the birth of an heir after waiting nearly 10 years for one