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En barbette
Barbette Bar*bette", n. [F. Cf. Barbet.] (Fort.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.]

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- The name barbette ultimately comes from fortification: it originally meant a raised platform or mound, as in the French phrase en barbette, which refers...
- ring followed the Krupp design. The guns appear to have been mounted en barbette, rather than on a disappearing carriage. A US Naval Intelligence report...
- mound or raised platform of earth, whereon the artillery was placed en barbette, so as to fire over the outer wall, and command a range on every side...
- all partly revetted with brick; the Octava or Madame Lynch (three guns en barbette); the Coimbra (eight guns); and the Tacuarí (three guns). Next, the invading...
- haven. There are seven positions intended for 68-pounder guns firing en barbette (i.e. on open mountings firing over a parapet), the southernmost four...
- protective measures against capital ship counterfire. The gun was mounted en barbette on a wrought-iron sliding carriage, allowing the gun to be fired over...
- five RBL 7-inch Armstrong guns and four 68-pounder guns, all mounted en barbette (i.e. in an open mounting, firing over a parapet). The landward side...
- some of which were mounted in protective casemates; the rest were in en barbette mountings, firing over the parapets. Two smaller fortresses were located...
- fire from the nearby Fort Manoel and Fort Tigné. The gun was mounted en barbette on a wrought-iron sliding carriage and gun fired over the top of the...
- Whitworth naval guns mounted on rifled Lev****eur carriages, arranged en barbette. In addition, the ship was equipped with a bow gun, four 25 mm Nordenfelt...