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Great battles are won with artillery.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
War
Artillery
Battle
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It is with artillery that war is made.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
War
Artillery
Made
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God is on the side with the best artillery
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
War
Artillery
Sides
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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
Artillery
Military
Obstinate
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Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.
Lynsey Addario / Photojournalist
Artillery
Gender
Mortar
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
William Tecumseh Sherman / U.s. General
Artillery
Batteries
Civil War
Fields
Thousand
Battery
Field
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
Artillery
Military
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As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
Robert A. Heinlein / Science Writer
Artillery
Fighting
Sides
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
Artillery
Crowds
Military
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I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
George S. Patton / Military Commander
War
Artillery
Military
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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
Michelle Bachelet / President Of Chile
Accurate
Artillery
Exercise
Winning
Exercises
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Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
Ernie Pyle / Journalist
Artillery
Military
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman Cousins / Journalist
Artillery
Gun
Never Quit
Survival
Heaviest
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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
Robin Williams / Actor
Funny
Humor
Arms
Artillery
Second Amendment
Amendment
Bear
Says
Second
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Stendhal / Writer
Artillery
Feminine
Found
Terrible
Weapons
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
Abraham Whipple /
Ammunition
Artillery
Prize
Received
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War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
War
Air
Air Force
Artillery
Equipment
Force
Groups
Matter
Morale
Spirit
Troops
Group
Largely
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I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Artillery
Baseball
Heavy
Observed
Unlike
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I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.
Gabriel Iglesias / Comic
Travel
Artillery
Cookies
Posse
Rapper
Carry
Guns
Deep
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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.
James Monroe / 5Th U.s. President
Men
War
Artillery
Cavalry
Department
Infantry
May
Estimated
Returns
Several
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General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.
John Buford /
Artillery
Infantry
Yesterday
Attempted
Withdrew
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When I get back with band, the lights, and the whole production, that's me with the full artillery. A quick radio performance keeps me sharp for the big show.
Andy Grammer / Singer-Songwriter
Artillery
Lights
Quick
Sharp
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Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
Shimon Peres / President Of Israel
Artillery
Barbed Wire
Borders
Firing
Ignorance
Poverty
Rockets
Shells
Terror
Wire
Barbed
Eradicated
Prevent
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The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
John Tyler / 10Th U.s. President
Artillery
Discharge
Loud
Melancholy
Solemn
Tidings
Announced
Bell
Nation
Dismal
Hath
Jefferson
Longer
Thomas
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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.
William Godwin / Journalist
Wisdom
Wise
Men
Artillery
Consequence
Liberty
Against
Free
Civil
Civil Liberty
Follows
Operation
Usurped
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Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
Ernie Pyle / Journalist
Artillery
Enough
Gun
Literature
Officers
Sensational
Time Enough Me
Guns
Time Me Enough
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I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.
Charles B. Rangel /
Army
Artillery
Division
Infantry
Operations
Battalion
Proudly
Served
Specialist
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All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
Fatos Nano / Albanian Politician
Air
Artillery
Civilians
Firing
Mean
Nato
Rockets
Strikes
Tanks
Units
Carry
Tank
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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.
Kelly Miller / Mathematician
Army
Artillery
Assistance
Enemy
Generous
Personnel
Superiority
Confident
Guns
French
Corps
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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.
Max Beckmann / Writer
Artillery
Clear
Heard
Infantry
Left
Shooting
Sky
Sun
Above
Bright
Cannon
Explosion
Front
Sharp
Thundering
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The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.
David Douglas Duncan / Photographer
Allies
Artillery
Fighting
Friendly
Trusted
Vietnam
Feared
Marines
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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.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Artillery
Extraordinary
Roaring
Welcome
Crashing
Effect
Rear
Thundering
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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.
Zach Wamp / Former U.s. Representative
Women
Home
Afghanistan
Artillery
August
Colleagues
Home State
Men And Women
Time Work Men
Brigade
District
Work Time Women
Uniform
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The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
Michael Hastings / Journalist
War
Air
Artillery
Balloons
Civil War
Helping
Military
Spy
Surveillance
Tracking
Aerial
Civil
Confederacy
Dates
Movements
Union
Troop
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My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
Betty Parsons /
Artillery
Convinced
Heavy
Hostility
No Friends
Reputation
Scene
Taste
Began
Public
Enemies
Threw
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I'm very lucky that I can walk on the stage before anyone in the world. And that's the thing: you've got to be pretty confident to go on after me. You've got to have the artillery, as I call it. And the artillery is your songs.
Richard Ashcroft / Musician
Artillery
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During the post-Soviet anarchy and the rush for the spoils of war, Hekmatyar spent most of his time between 1992 and 1996 raining rockets and artillery shells on the people of Kabul, leaving the city a smoking tomb of as many as 50,000 corpses.
Terry Glavin /
Anarchy
Artillery
Corpses
Leaving
Rockets
Shells
Smoking
Raining
Rush
Spoils
Tomb
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In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
William Hull / American Politician
Arrested
Artillery
British
Hamilton
Lines
Spy
Truce
Within
Afterwards
Aid
General
Camp
Captain
Condemned
Washington
Executed
Flag
Informed
Officer
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My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Artillery
Gettysburg
Goodness
Great Grandfather
Honorable
Survived
Fought
Motivations
Revere
Southerners
Thank
Thank Goodness
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Napoleon's plan was for his army to arrive in Egypt not as conquerors but liberators. Landing in Aboukir Bay on July 1, 1798, the French captured Alexandria the next day, overcoming the surprised Mamelukes - the despotic local rulers - with a combination of modern artillery and infantry tactics.
Tom Reiss / Author
Alexandria
Army
Artillery
Captured
Combination
Egypt
Infantry
July
Overcoming
Rulers
Tactics
Bay
Conquerors
French
Despotic
Local
Napoleon
Plan
Surprised
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If we - particularly, if we peremptorily attack North Korea - that without deliberation, that North Korea will reflexively unleash all the rocketry and artillery - which they're pretty good at, by the way - on Seoul, and do as they vowed many times, to convert Seoul into a sea of fire. So, if we do something like this, this will have cataclysmic results.
James R. Clapper / Officer
Artillery
North Korea
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