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1758 J. Wolfe Let. 30 July in B. Wilson Life & Lett. J. Wolfe (1909) 389 I had the satisfaction of putting two or three haut-vitzer shells into his stern.

1762 Gentleman's & London Mag. Sept. 521/1 The battery mentioned yesterday was begun; as also a howitzer battery, beyond the Spanish redoubt, to remove the shipping farther off up the river.

1844 W. Siborne Hist. War in 1815 I. x. 386 Major Bull's British howitzer horse-battery.

1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. IV. 161 The howitzer shell-guns were remodeled in 1844.

1914 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl.-Tribune 25 Sept. 1/5 The German howitzer shells..send up columns of greasy black smoke.

1916 Times 6 Oct. 8/1 One German light field howitzer battery..fired over 3,500 rounds of gas shells (known as ‘green cross’ shells) in 24 hours.

1967 Boston Herald 1 Apr. 14/6 The enemy opened up with mortar and howitzer fire, hitting American troops who had pulled back into defensive perimeters.

1992 H. N. Schwarzkopf It doesn't take Hero xxi. 423 When they finished hauling a load of howitzer shells to the front—work they didn't relish in the first place—they..would drive back to their company garage and go home.

2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Aug. 14 The deafening sound of an Israeli artillery barrage fired from a self-propelled howitzer battery hidden in the valley.