Artillery Position

Location and arrangement by which artillery can be most effectively employed. This depends on its character, caliber and range. Field guns, being mobile, are grouped in one or more batteries and form part of the fighting character of the battle, and varies with the attack and defense. Siege guns are of heavier caliber and are located in raised, sunken or half-sunken batteries in front of the parallels or on the flanks of the besieger's works, to give a concentrated fire and interfere as little as po ible with the movement of the troops of their own army.