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redoubt [rɪˈdaʊt] n
1. (Military / Fortifications) an outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop, etc. 2. (Military / Fortifications) a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position [via French from obsolete Italian ridotta, from Medieval Latin reductus shelter, from Latin redūcere to withdraw, from re- + dūcere to lead] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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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