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Excerpt from The English Cyclopedia, Vol. 2: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; Arts and Sciences
While the same species of artillery continued to be used in warfare, it is evident that no material change could take place in the nature of the edifices constructed to cover it; but from the epoch of the invention of gunpowder, the wooden sheds or towers were superseded by masses of earth, whose thickness was necessarily made greater than the depth to which a carmon-shot can penetrate into them. In modern times the designation of a battery varies with the purposes to be accomplished, the nature of the ordnance employed, and the manner in which the firing may be made.
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