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Bombard
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Bombard may refer to:
- The act of carrying out a bombardmentBombardmentA bombardment is an attack by artillery fire directed against fortifications, troops or towns and buildings.Prior to World War I the term term was only applied to the bombardment of defenceless or undefended objects, houses, public buildings, it was only loosely employed to describe artillery...
- Bombard (weapon)Bombard (weapon)A bombard is a large-caliber, muzzle-loading medieval cannon or mortar, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. The name bombarde was first noted and sketched in a French historical text around 1380. The modern term bombardment derives from this.Bombards were usually used during...
, a type of late medieval siege weapon. - Bombard (music)Bombard (music)The bombard, also known as talabard or ar vombard in the Breton language or bombarde in French, is a contemporary conical bore double reed instrument widely used to play traditional Breton music. The bombard is a woodwind instrument; the reed is held between the lips. The bombard is a member of the...
, a contemporary double reed instrument used to play traditional Breton music. - Alain BombardAlain BombardAlain Bombard was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat.Alain Bombard was born in Paris...
, a French sailor who crossed the Atlantic on a rigid-hulled inflatable boat with no water or food. - Bomb vesselBomb vesselA bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannon —although bomb vessels carried a few cannon for self-defence—but rather mortars mounted forward near the bow and elevated to a high angle, and projecting their fire in a...
, a type a sailing ship carrying heavy mortars for bombarding positions on land