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BOMBARDIER

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BOMBARDIER , originally an artilleryman in See also:

charge of a See also:

BOMBARD (derived through Med. Lat. and Fr. forms from Gr. (3oµ(3eiv, to make a humming noise)

bombard; now a non-commissioned officer in the See also:

ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery of the See also:

BRITISH

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army, ranking below a See also:

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