cannoneer

• “Dearer than life itself to the cannoneer is the gun he serves, and these brave men fought hand to hand with handspikes, rammers, staves, and even stones.”

  Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI

• “Officials said Lantigua was a field artillery cannoneer and was stationed in Anbar Province.”

  Gulf War II

• “He was a frikkig cannoneer sitting on top of a hill in pretty much one location in his entire tour.”

  frank joseph visconi

• “Director Tom Gellert as well as a HCB for a final concert: Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture accompanied by LIVE cannon as well as guest cannoneer, Jim McAward.”

  li concerts summer 2009

• “I had pointed to the use of grunt-carried UAVs, and cannoneer Common_Sense noted that there was no real distinction between those and artillery.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference

• “UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was in the United States Marines, an artillery cannoneer.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009

• “The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance.”

  Les Miserables

• “Chance was an artillery cannoneer and his unit was acting as provisional military police outside of Baghdad.”

  Gulf War II

• “A cannon-ball of twenty-four pounds can make, and has often made, more ravage than an hundred thunder-claps; yet no cannoneer has ever been struck by Jupiter for imitating that which passes in the atmosphere.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “His spoken French remained that of a rough cannoneer.”

  Hilaire Belloc: Defender of the Faith

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