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cannoneer

NOUN
  1. a serviceman in the artillery

How To Use cannoneer In A Sentence

  • 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
  • You can see the cannoneers loading the touch holes from a horn.
  • Officials said Lantigua was a field artillery cannoneer and was stationed in Anbar Province. Gulf War II
  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was in the United States Marines, an artillery cannoneer. CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009
  • It was later in the Peninsular Campaign that taps were first played at a military funeral after an artillery cannoneer was killed in action.
  • The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Les Miserables
  • Rebel riflemen flung themselves on smoking union cannons firing pointblank, bayonets stabbing, taking vengeance on the cannoneers.
  • Chance was an artillery cannoneer and his unit was acting as provisional military police outside of Baghdad. Gulf War II
  • The allied army began preparations for the offensive, supported by the accurate bombardment of the British by the French cannoneers.
  • A few steps away, a kneeling artilleryman lifts one cannonball from a pile, presumably to bring it to the cannoneers for loading. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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