* 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

The ceremonial uniform ( 1 ) for festivals, usually worn only by the ceremonial Artillery Company, includes red trousers with a green stripe ( two thinner gold stripes for officers ), a double breasted green jacket ( with red and white lanyard, red cuffs and collars, gold buttons, and red and white dress epaulettes ( for officers the epaulettes are gold, and there is a gold edge to the red cuffs )), a black leather belt, and a black helmet decorated with red and white feathers.

Most members of the Guard of the Rock are full-time soldiers, but there is also a single Company of volunteers called the " Fortress Guard, Artillery Company " which exists for the now purely ceremonial duty of firing the cannon of the Palazzo Pubblico on ceremonial occasions.

* August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

The claim that the National Guard is older than the nation itself, with over three and a half centuries of service, is based on the claim that the modern-day 101st Field Artillery Regiment, 182nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Engineer Battalion and 181st Infantry Regiment of the Massachusetts Army National Guard are directly descended from Massachusetts Bay Colony regiments formed over 375 years ago.

102 Howitzer belonging to Battery A, 1st Battalion, 206th Field Artillery, 39th Brigade Combat Team, in position at Camp Taji, Iraq 29 May 2004While the M102 is no longer in use by the Active United States Army, having been replaced by the M119, it is still in use by the National Guard.

The Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle ( FAASV ) is built on the chassis of the M109-series.

The vehicle also contains a 2-stroke diesel powered auxiliary power unit that can power all non-automotive energy requirements on the Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle and on the howitzer when a slave cable is used to connect the two.

With the affixing of their signature to these three solemn promises, the individual is officially the governor general, and at that moment the Flag of the Governor General of Canada is raised on the Peace Tower, the Viceregal Salute is played by the Central Band of the Canadian Forces, and a 21-gun salute is conducted by the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

* " U. S. Field Artillery " ( 1917 ) ( Modified version The Army Goes Rolling Along is the official song of the U. S. Army )

* 1650-Artis Magnae Artilleriae pars prima (" Great Art of Artillery, the First Part ") is printed in Amsterdam, about a year before the death of its author, Kazimierz Siemienowicz.

All companies are now associated with The Royal Welsh except for Prestatyn Platoon which is cap-badged ' REME ', Llandudno Platoon and Bangor Platoon which are cap-badged ' Royal Artillery ', Mold and Porthmadog Platoons which are cap-badges ' Queens Dragoon Guards ( QDG )', and Bradley and Benllech platoons which are cap-badged ' Welsh Guards '.

This statement is quoted from the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees News page: " On October 12, 1926, Babe Ruth visited Wilkes-Barre's Artillery Park to play in an exhibition game between Hughestown and Larksville.

Since the Virgin is Captain General of Artillery ( which is indicated for the baton and the sash that has his feet ) from the September 24, 1916, en route from the Cathedral Shrine and is accompanied by cadets Artillery Academy and the Band ( which has to be brought from the Academy of Toledo since disappeared local ).

Artillery observation teams are the most common means of target acquisition.

He lived most of his life in England and served in the British Army in the Royal Artillery during World War II.

Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.

Two companies were deployed at the coast, one in the most easterly series of strongpoints, with artillery support provided by the third battalion of the 352nd Artillery Regiment.

Designated as the Regiment of Canadian Artillery, the regular component evolved into the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, with most of its battery housed at Tête du Pont Barracks until 1939.

Bedminster Township is noted for having one of the most historic revolutionary war sites in the United States at what is known as the Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Artillery weapons of this sort have for the most part been superseded by the effective surface-to-air missile systems that were introduced in the 1950s, although they were still retained by many nations.

" With the death of General Kutaisov, Chief of Artillery, most of the Russian cannon sat useless on the heights to the rear and were never ordered into battle, while the French artillery wreaked havoc on the Russians.

As they approached Oosterbeek they were met by Lieutenant Colonel Sheriff Thompson, of the 1st Airlanding Light Artillery Regiment, who formed most of the men into a defensive screen under Major Robert Cain forward of his artillery positions.

Its first, most influential and longest-serving Director was Alexandros Natsinas, a Lieutenant General of Artillery and veteran of World War II and the Greek Civil War.

Artillery observation parties accompanied most if not all infantry patrols and occasionally special forces ones.

All original, good condition, U. S. Cavalry and Artillery Single Action Armies ( those produced between 1873 and 1891 ) are among the most valuable to the collector.

Driver Childers, Honourable Artillery CompanyAs with most men of his social background and education, Childers was a steadfast believer in the British Empire.

He served in France from 1914 as a lieutenant in the 10th Service Battalion-Somerset Light Infantry and the Honourable Artillery Company, but was severely wounded at Cambrai the following year, with eleven bullets in his left leg, and spent most of the remainder of the war in a wheelchair.

Colonel Henry Knox, Chief of Artillery for General Washington, concurred with Washington that " the plain just above Springfield is perhaps one of the most proper spots on every account " for the location of an arsenal.

The Artillery Corps had been dissolved in the most virulent moment of the Carlist and Cuban wars, for which there were not enough soldiers or armament, nor money to feed or purchase them.

* The transfer to REME of most of the unit repair responsibilities of other arms ( Infantry, Royal Artillery, Royal Armoured Corps etc.

Artillery was manhandled over with great effort and ingenuity ; however an Austrian-held fort on the Italian side ( although bypassed by infantry and cavalry ) prevented most of the artillery reaching the plains of Northern Italy until the start of June.

He transferred to the Anti-Aircraft branch of the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916 and rose to the rank of Major, being known for most of his political career as Major Lloyd George.

Managua was also home to most of the GN ’ s main tactical units such as the Batallón de la Guardia Presidencial ( Presidential Guard Battalion ), the Primero Batallón Blindado ( 1st Armoured Battalion ), the Batallón de Combate General Somoza ( BCGS, General Somoza Combat Battalion ), the Batallón de Ingeniería ( Engineer Battalion ), the Batallón de Policía Militar ( Military Police Battalion ), and the Artillery Batteries.

One of the most successful British memorials is the starkly realist Royal Artillery Memorial in London, the masterpiece of Charles Sargeant Jagger, who had been wounded three times in the war and spent most of the next decade commemorating it.

The mission of the Field Artillery is to integrate and deliver lethal and non-lethal fires to enable joint and maneuver commanders to dominate their operational environment across the spectrum of operations.

Units from Parachute Artillery Regiments form the basis of the Special Operations component of the Regiment, from the moment that recon became part of its own tasks, as well as the acquisition of targets and the guidance of laser and precision munitions deployed by air.

In the United States Army for instance, air defence is part of the artillery arm, while in the Pakistan Army, it was split off from Artillery to form a separate arm of its own in 1990.

After war was declared in April, 1917, expansion of the Regular Army was accelerated and the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Field Artillery was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to form the 14th Field Artillery.

They are divided into batteries and together the regiments form the Artillery Corps.

In 1498 part of the otherwise unenclosed landscape was set aside to form a large field for the exercise of archers and other military citizens, and even today this part of the manor still bears the name " Artillery Ground ".

Artillery fortifications were added to the south approach of the castle, and these form the basis of the present Outer Defences.

The 101st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group's B Battery ( B / GADA101 ) was assigned to defend the Fresinet Peninsula, a long, narrow piece of land running from Moody Brook to form the northern arm of Stanley, when their troops came under attack at 11 p. m.

During this period, British Royal Marine Light Infantry ( merged with the Royal Marine Artillery in the 1920s to form the Royal Marines ) were used primarily as naval parties onboard Royal Navy warships to maintain discipline and man ships ' guns.

A Royal Artillery boat was fitted with a howitzer and the serjeant in charge of the boat was given instructions to drop down the channel to within 500 yards of Congella and await the troops in order that they might form under the cover of its fire, aided by that of two six-pounders which accompanied Captain Smith's force.

However when the Royal Horse Artillery is on parade with its guns, ( usually in the form of The Kings Troop ) it will replace the Household Cavalry at the extreme right of the line.

* Benito Mussolini: In 1936, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, Mussolini ordered the manufacturing / purchase of hundreds of tons of Yperite, Phosgene and Fire Munitions in the form of Aerial Bombs and Artillery and Mortar shells.

A detached combination lock, wheellock and what is certainly an agujeta / romanlock form lock, in the Royal Artillery Museum, Turin, strongly suggests the agujeta / romanlock came to Spain from Italy, probably during a period of Spanish involvement there.

In 1957 the Glider Pilot Regiment and the Air Observation Post squadrons of the Royal Artillery amalgamated to form the current Army Air Corps.