__NOTOC__ Bombard may refer to the act of carrying out a

bombardment A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or towns and buildings. Prior to World War I, the term was only applied to the bombardment of defenseless or undefended objects, ...

. It may also refer to:

Individuals

Alain Bombard Alain Bombard (; Paris, 27 October 1924 – Paris, 19 July 2005) was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing in a small boat across the Atlantic Ocean without provision. He theorized that a human being could very well su ...

(1924–2005), French biologist, physician and politician; known for crossing the Atlantic on a small boat with no water or food *

Marc Bombard Marc Stephen Bombard (born November 15, 1949, in Tampa, Florida) is an American professional baseball manager and coach, and a former pitcher in minor league baseball. A manager in the minors for 28 years, he spent three seasons in the Major Leagu ...

(1949–), American baseball player and coach

Weapons

Bombard (weapon) The bombard is a type of cannon or mortar which was used throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Bombards were mainly large calibre, muzzle-loading artillery pieces used during sieges to shoot round stone projectiles at the wall ...

, a

cannon A cannon is a large- caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black powder") was the primary propellant before the invention of smokeless powder ...

or mortar used throughout the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

and the early modern period *

Blacker Bombard The Blacker Bombard, also known as the 29-mm Spigot Mortar, was an infantry anti-tank weapon devised by Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Blacker in the early years of the Second World War. Intended as a means to equip Home Guard units with an anti-ta ...

, an anti-tank weapon used by British forces during the early part of World War 2

Ships

Bombard (vessel) __NOTOC__ Bombard may refer to the act of carrying out a bombardment. It may also refer to: Individuals *Alain Bombard (1924–2005), French biologist, physician and politician; known for crossing the Atlantic on a small boat with no water or food ...

, a small two-masted vessel like an English

ketch A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch fr ...

, common in the Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries *Bombarde (or Bombard), an alternative name for a

bomb vessel A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons ( long guns or carronades) – although bomb vessels carried a few cannons for self-defence – but mortars mounte ...

in the 18th & 19th centuries *, Royal Australian Navy patrol boat in commission from 1968 to 1993 *, a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1944 to 1945 * ''Bombarde'', a French Navy

La Melpomène-class torpedo boat The ''La Melpomène'' class was a group of 12 French torpedo boats built from 1933 to 1935. Ships in class After serving with Marine Nationale, the ships of the ''La Melpomène'' class saw service in World War II with the '' Kriegsmarine'', ''Ma ...

, commissioned 1938, later captured by Italy in 1942, and then by Germany in 1943, and sunk by US aircraft in 1944.

Place

Bombardopolis Bombardopolis ( ht, Bonbadopolis) is a commune located in the hilly country of the Môle-Saint-Nicolas Arrondissement, in the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti. History Bombardopolis was founded in 1764 by German settlers with the support of the ...

, Haiti, was known in English in the 18th & 19th centuries as Bombarde

Other

Bombard (music) The bombard (, ) is a contemporary conical-bore double-reed instrument widely used to play traditional Breton music. The bombard is a woodwind instrument, and a member of the shawm family. Like most shawms, it has a broad and very powerful sound, ...

, a double reed instrument used to play traditional Breton music. *

Bombarde (organ stop) An organ stop can mean one of three things: *the control on an organ console that selects a particular sound *the row of organ pipes used to create a particular sound, more appropriately known as a ''rank'' *the sound itself Organ stops are sorte ...

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