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En barbette

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said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures.

See also: Barbette



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The infant colony had been provided with some rudimentary defences, initially earthworks, but moving toward more substantial stone construction, there were quite a number of `close to the water' smooth bore small calibre cannon mounted to fire through embrasures rather than en barbette and there had been an extension of the defences toward the harbour entrance.
 
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