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Definition of Redoubts
1. redoubt [n] - See also: redoubt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redoubts
Literary usage of Redoubts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The French in America During the War of Independence of the United States by Thomas Balch (1891)
"One of these redoubts was at the extreme right, on the bank of the river in front
of the ... The capture of these redoubts had become indispensable. ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... but also those on Mount Inkerman, with which General Bosquet proposed to carry
the two White redoubts. With the 4th Division (Dulac) as its reserve, ..."
3. Contemporary Memoirs of Russia, from the Year 1727-1744 by Cristof Hermann Manstein (1856)
"the evening two galleys of the enemy approached the redoubts, and opened fire
upon them; but were so well answered, that they were soon obliged to sheer off ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"The two The two White redoubts on Mount Inkerman redoubts were confronted by the
French, and by them so successfully battered as to be silenced and crushed ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The cuts KK are made to isolate its extremities from the salient portion, and
prevent the enemy from driving the defence from the redoubts of the reentering ..."
6. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1844)
"It was from this road the two regiments marched in line and in double quick time,
to the assault of the two redoubts; and it was in carrying the one already ..."
7. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman by Robert H. Kellogg (1865)
"... advanced up the Columbia road and with wild cheers and yells charged upon the
two redoubts which formed our protection upon the east side of the town. ..."
8. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"The Attack on Fort Magruder—Hancock occupies two redoubts—The Slaughter in Early's
Brigade—The Fifth North Carolina Regiment and Twenty-Fourth Virginia ..."
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