bombardment battery

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• battery — 1530s, action of battering, from M.Fr. batterie, from O.Fr. baterie (12c.) beating, thrashing, assault, from batre beat, from L. battuere beat (see BATTER (Cf. batter) (v.)). Meaning shifted in M.Fr. from bombardment ( heavy blows upon city walls …   Etymology dictionary

• Bombardment of Algiers — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Bombardment of Algiers partof=Barbary Wars caption= Bombardment of Algiers , 1823, Martinus Schouman. date=August 27 1816 place=Algiers, Algeria result=Allied victory combatant1= combatant2=s commander1=… …   Wikipedia

• Bombardment of Alexandria (1882) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Bombardment of Alexandria partof=Anglo Egyptian War place=Alexandria, Egypt date=11 13 July 1882 casus= result=British victory combatant1=. combatant2= commander1=Admiral Beauchamp Seymour commander2=Colonel… …   Wikipedia

• battery — [16] The original meaning of battery in English was literally ‘hitting’, as in assault and battery. It came from Old French batterie, a derivative of batre, battre ‘beat’ (from which English also gets batter [14]). The ultimate source of this,… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• battery — [16] The original meaning of battery in English was literally ‘hitting’, as in assault and battery. It came from Old French batterie, a derivative of batre, battre ‘beat’ (from which English also gets batter [14]). The ultimate source of this,… …   Word origins

• bombardment — noun 1. the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) a barrage of questions a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake • Syn: ↑barrage, ↑outpouring, ↑onslaught • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• battery — n 1. series, suite, set, sequence, cycle; string, chain, ring; progression, succession, order. 2. battering, beating, pounding, pummeling, pommeling, going over, Sl. pasting; hitting, striking, bastinado, Scot. dunt, Scot, and North Eng. paik;… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Drummond Battery — No. 2 BL 9.2 inch gun in 1944 …   Wikipedia

• Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor — The Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was an ironclad vessel that was constructed by the Confederacy in early 1861, a few months before the American Civil War ignited. Apart from being a marvel to contemporary Charlestonians, it was a… …   Wikipedia

• Ben Buckler Gun Battery, North Bondi — The Ben Buckler Gun Battery is a fortified gun emplacement and defence fortification of the late Victorian period, it is located in the Northern Bondi locality of Ben Buckler, Sydney Australia. [ [http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/localstudie… …   Wikipedia

• Artillery battery — Remains of a battery of English cannon from Youghal, County Cork. In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of guns, mortars, rockets or missiles so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and… …   Wikipedia