Avedette is a mounted sentry orpicket, who has the function of bringing information, giving signals or warnings of danger, etc., to a main body oftroops.[1][a] In modern terms, the soldiers who manlistening-posts are the equivalent of vedettes.
Navies use the termvedette to refer to a small scouting or patrol boat.
The term has also been used for specific naval vessels (seeUSSVedette), and a class of flying boat (seeCanadian Vickers Vedette).
All aroundSalisbury Plain in southern England, the roads connecting the plain with the surrounding countryside feature brick-built guard-posts, staffed by security officers whenever there is military activity beyond such points. They are known as vedettes, and each one is named for a local geographic feature.[2]
TheGardjola is a prominentguard tower on Maltese forts in Malta and an example of a vedette.[3][4][5] It may be referred to in French as anéchauguette.[6]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vedette".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 965.
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