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Understanding Artillery Batteries

This quiz tests your knowledge of artillery batteries, their historical context, structure, and types used in various conflicts.

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1 Various more specialised types, such as ________, missile, or Multiple Launch Rocket System batteries.

2 To further concentrate fire of individual batteries, from ________ they were grouped into 'artillery divisions'.

3 One of the first rotating turrets was designed by ________, for use on the American ironclad USS Monitor.

4 Batteries were divided into sections of two guns apiece, each section normally under the command of a ________.

5 During the ________, artillery batteries often consisted of six field pieces for the Union Army and four for the Confederate States Army, although this varied.

6 In ________ and Commonwealth forces a battery commander, or "BC" is a Major (like his infantry company commander counterpart).

7 Historically the term 'battery' referred to a group of ordnance systems (commonly ________) in action, used as field artillery or in a siege of a fortress or a city.

8 The gun line consisted of six guns (five ________ to a gun) and 12 ammunition mules.

9 Often, particularly as the war progressed, individual batteries were grouped into battalions under a major or ________ of artillery.

10 Such batteries could be a mixture of cannon, ________ or mortar types.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902.
  • the term battery in baseball was first used by Henry Chadwick in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff, inspired by artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War.
  • while commanding the Crisbecq Battery during the Normandy invasion, Walter Ohmsen (pictured) had another artillery battery fire on his position, which helped earn him the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
  • after the Soviet battleship Marat (pictured) was sunk during World War II by German Stukas, it was raised and used as a floating artillery battery.
  • Colonel William H. Wilbur of the United States Army received the Medal of Honor for attempting to arrange an armistice with Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch.
  • Egawa Hidetatsu (pictured) designed and built in 1853–54 the artillery batteries of Odaiba at the entrance of Edo (modern Tokyo), to prevent an intrusion by the United States fleet of Commodore Perry.
  • English cannon batteries (pictured) required artillery crews of twelve per gun.
  • Pulau Sejahat was a British military encampment in Singapore during World War II whose gun batteries were never used against Japanese invaders.
  • Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge.
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