Barracuda
a fish-the sphyræna Bahamas and other West Indian islands.
BARRAGE, protective artillery fire laid down when troops are advancing to an assault. Intensive bombardment of a trench or other point destined for attack is first carried on, and when the defenders are supposed to be sufficiently decimated or demoralized, the signal is given for the charge. As they ARABIAN SOLDIERS IN THE KINGDOM OF HEDJAZ Enc. Vol. 1-p. 426 Ewing Galloway mwim THE CAPITOL, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA Ewing Galloway THOMPSON CENTRAL AVENUE, LEADING TO THE STATE CAPITOL, LITTLE ROCK, ARK. International Film Service THE RUINS OF ARRAS, FRANCE, ON THE BRITISH WAR FRONT Photo from British and Colonial Press DRILLING IN AN ASBESTOS MINE AT THEDFORD, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA Publishers' Photo Service A CLUMP OF GIANT BAMBOO IN CEYLON Brown & Dawson A GREAT BANYAN TREE NEAR THE CITY OF COLOMBO, CEYLON Photographed for Collier's Weekly by Alfred Machin GATHERING THE FRUIT OF THE BAOBAB TREE IN THE REGION OF THE UPPER NILE BARRANQUILLA advance, a barrage is laid down by their artillery either behind the threatened position, to prevent the defenders from retreating or being re-enforced, or in front of the advancing troops, to clear their path. The barrage has to be most carefully calculated, so that the assailants themselves may not be caught in the fire destined for their foes.
BARRANQUILLA (bar-an-ke'la), the principal port of the Republic of Colombia and capital of the department of Atlantico, lies near the left bank of the main channel of the Magdalena, 15 miles distant from the sea. A railway runs to the coast; and the bar at the mouth of the river has been improved so as to enable sea-going vessels to pass up to Barranquilla, which possesses excellent wharfage accommodation. The inland traffic by river steamers is important.
Pop. about 65,000.
BARRAS (bär-ä'), PAUL FRANÇOIS JEAN NICOLAS, COMTE DE, a French Jacobin, born in Provence, in 1755; served as second lieutenant in the regiment of Languedoc until 1775. He made a voyage to the Isle-de-France, and en- BARREL 18th Brumaire (Nov. 9, 1799), overthrew the power of Barras and his colleagues.
He died in Paris, Jan. 29, 1829.