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  1. obusier

    The obusier de vaisseau was a light piece of naval artillery with a large calibre mounted on French warships of the Age of Sail. Designed to fire explosive shells at a low velocity, they were an answer to the carronade in the close combat and anti-personnel role. However, their intended ammunition proved too dangerous for the crew, and the French navy phased them out at the beginning of the Empire in favour of the carronade. Accounts by British warships of the armament of captured French ships tend to describe them as carronades. However, when the description includes the remark that the weapon was brass, this suggests that it was an obusier. Several of the guns were recovered from the wreck of the Golymin in the road of Brest, and are now on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris and in Brest.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. obusier

    (Fr.). A species of small mortar, resembling a mortar in everything but the carriage, which was made in the form of that belonging to a gun, only shorter. It has been frequently used at sieges; and was well calculated to sweep the covert way, and to fire ricochet shots. They were usually loaded with cartouches.

  2. obusier

    (Fr.). Howitzer, called haubitz by the Dutch. In 1434 it was known under the name of husenicze.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of obusier in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of obusier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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