Definitions: Barbette

How they were designed, built and protected armies and strategic areas.
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Definitions: Barbette

Post by pud » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:07 am

This is a platform upon which guns are placed in order to fire over the parapet. They have various shapes according to the builders or defenders requirements.

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