I have been using this term in the last several posts.
It is a French word meaning a raised platform involving the practice of firing a cannon over the parapet of a fort instead of a lower gun embrasure.
If you see cannons mounted on top of a fort's parapets, they would be mounted en barbette.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Fort Look-Out, Defense of Baltimore
From WikiFort.
On or near present-day Riverside Park, Baltimore, Maryland.
Designed by Captain Samuel Babcock, Army Corps of Engineers as a circular redoubt on top of Look-Out Hill overlooking Fort McHenry. It guarded the road from Baltimore to Fort McHenry.
It was 180 feet in diameter, an earthen fortification surrounded by a ditch and an earth-covered magazine in the center. Its earthen ramparts mounted seven 24-pdr. naval guns in barbette.
It also provided a strategic point in which the garrison of Fort McHenry could fall back upon if forced to evacuate.
During the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, it was commanded by Lt. George Budd, US navy. It was abandoned in 1810. No remains of it exist.
--Brock-Perry
On or near present-day Riverside Park, Baltimore, Maryland.
Designed by Captain Samuel Babcock, Army Corps of Engineers as a circular redoubt on top of Look-Out Hill overlooking Fort McHenry. It guarded the road from Baltimore to Fort McHenry.
It was 180 feet in diameter, an earthen fortification surrounded by a ditch and an earth-covered magazine in the center. Its earthen ramparts mounted seven 24-pdr. naval guns in barbette.
It also provided a strategic point in which the garrison of Fort McHenry could fall back upon if forced to evacuate.
During the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, it was commanded by Lt. George Budd, US navy. It was abandoned in 1810. No remains of it exist.
--Brock-Perry
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Fort Covington, Baltimore
From WikiFort.
Constructed 1813-1816. Established 1813. Named after Leonard W. Covington. Abandoned 1834. Also known as Fort Patapsco or Fort Wadsworth (named after Col. Decius Wadsworth, Chief of U.S. Ordnance Department).
Fort Covington was a pie-slice-shaped, semi-circular fortress constructed 1.5 miles due west of Fort McHenry defending Baltimore, Maryland. It was designed by Captain Samuel Babcock, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
It had a surrounding ten-foot high brick wall and 16 foot deep ditch in front of a parapet designed to mount ten to twelve 18-pdr. guns. There was a barracks and magazine inside it.
At the 1814 Battle of Baltimore it had seven 18-pdrs. mounted en-barbette and was manned by a naval company. On the evening 13 September 1814, Fort Covington and nearby Fort Babcock and Fort Look-Out repulsed the British fleet.
Nothing remains of the fort.
--Brock-Perry
Constructed 1813-1816. Established 1813. Named after Leonard W. Covington. Abandoned 1834. Also known as Fort Patapsco or Fort Wadsworth (named after Col. Decius Wadsworth, Chief of U.S. Ordnance Department).
Fort Covington was a pie-slice-shaped, semi-circular fortress constructed 1.5 miles due west of Fort McHenry defending Baltimore, Maryland. It was designed by Captain Samuel Babcock, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
It had a surrounding ten-foot high brick wall and 16 foot deep ditch in front of a parapet designed to mount ten to twelve 18-pdr. guns. There was a barracks and magazine inside it.
At the 1814 Battle of Baltimore it had seven 18-pdrs. mounted en-barbette and was manned by a naval company. On the evening 13 September 1814, Fort Covington and nearby Fort Babcock and Fort Look-Out repulsed the British fleet.
Nothing remains of the fort.
--Brock-Perry
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