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redan

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redan [rɪˈdæn]
n
(Military / Fortifications) a fortification of two parapets at a salient angle
[from French, from earlier redent notching of a saw edge, from re- + dent tooth, from Latin dēns]


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The Redan was within rifle- shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride.
You who have imagined, traced, and combined between these bastions, these redans, these curtains, these half-moons; and are preparing that covered way?
 
 
 
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