Bombardment
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bombardment-317-4608413
title:
Bombardment
text:
A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or cities and buildings. Prior to World War I, the term was only applied to the bombardment of defenseless or undefended objects, houses, public buildings, etc. It was only loosely employed to describe artillery attacks upon forts or fortified positions in preparation for assaults by infantry. Since then, it has come to mean any mass attack delivered by artillery or short-range tactical
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Military attack by artillery fire
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-06T16:57:23Z
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13
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