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redoubt

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re·doubt  (r-dout)
n.
1. A small, often temporary defensive fortification.
2. A reinforcing earthwork or breastwork within a permanent rampart.
3. A protected place of refuge or defense.

[French redoute, from Italian ridotto, from Medieval Latin reductus, concealed place, from Latin, past participle of redcere, to withdraw, lead back; see reduce.]

redoubt
Noun
1. a small fort defending a hill top or pass
2. a stronghold [French redoute]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.redoubt - (military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses
fortification, munition - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
2.redoubt - an entrenched stronghold or refuge
stronghold, fastness - a strongly fortified defensive structure

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On the twenty-fourth of August the battle of the Shevardino Redoubt was fought, on the twenty-fifth not a shot was fired by either side, and on the twenty-sixth the battle of Borodino itself took place.
Great mounds had been heaped about the crest of the hill, making a huge redoubt of it--it was the final and largest place the Martians had made--and from behind these heaps there rose a thin smoke against the sky.
They were encamped in tents, constructed of the old sails and spare spars of the squadron, within the limits of a redoubt mounted with a few nine-pounders, and surrounded with a fosse.
 
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