Written by Frederick Engels about October 5, 1857, and published unsigned in The New American Cyclopædia (New York: D. Appleton and Company), vol. III, 1858, p. 453. Text of the Cyclopædia, from the public-domain scans in the Internet Archive (newamericancycl21danagoog), with the OCR corrected against the page images; collated with the German version in Marx/Engels, Werke, vol. 14 (Berlin, 1961), p. 143, and found complete. Misprints of the Cyclopædia are kept and pointed out in the notes of the translation. Traducción al español
BOMBARDIER, originally the man having charge of a mortar in a mortar battery, but now retained in some armies to designate a non-commissioned rank in the artillery, somewhat below a sergeant. The bombardier generally has the pointing of the gun for his principal duty. In Austria, a bombardier corps is formed as a training school for non-commissioned officers of the artillery, an institution which has contributed much to the effective and scientific mode of serving their guns, for which that branch of the Austrian service is distinguished.