Meanings of land battery in English

The land battery of these naval guns was manned exclusively by bluejackets under command of Rear-Admiral C. P. Plunkett.

A single ball from the land battery, striking the side of one of his vessels, instantly sunk her with near a hundred seamen and marines!

Nov. 22-Turkishwarships shell Taupse, but are repulsed by Russian land batteries.

The next day the ships of war renewed their attack, as did the land batteries.

They have got a great advantage, covered as they are by those two land batteries.

Already there was a film of smoke over the land batteries and along the line of Spanish ships inshore.

A fleet of gunboats joined the land batteries in bombarding the fort, and at last succeeded in making it no longer tenable.

In this action three French ships were taken; the rest fled for protection to their own port and their own land batteries.

A brisk artillery duel was proceeding between the land batteries and the squadron, and the handsome town was already in flames in several places.

It was held by six companies of the 39th Mississippi regiment, under Colonel W. B. Shelby, while behind, in the positions of land batteries III.