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(military) a temporary or supplementary fortification

an entrenched stronghold or refuge

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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.
This was shown first by the fact that there were no entrenchments there by the twenty fifth and that those begun on the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth were not completed, and secondly, by the position of the Shevardino Redoubt. That redoubt was quite senseless in front of the position where the battle was accepted.
Had Napoleon not ridden out on the evening of the twenty-fourth to the Kolocha, and had he not then ordered an immediate attack on the redoubt but had begun the attack next morning, no one would have doubted that the Shevardino Redoubt was the left flank of our and the battle would have taken place where we expected it.
"How did you manage not to die in the gorge of the redoubts at Borodino?" asked a peasant woman.
For seven hours he held Race" course Redoubt, wounded and practically single-handed, his citation for Britain's highest military decoration said.
They consider the assaults of May 19 and 22, the fighting at the Railroad Redoubt from the Union perspective and the perspective of Wauls' Texas Legion, and the reactions of Midwesterners to the news of the first failures of Grant's Vicksburg campaign.
Women arrive in droves at a screening point controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the Islamic State group's last redoubt in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border.
Kurdish-led forces in Syria said they would complete the evacuation of thousands of civilians from Islamic State's last redoubt in the area on Friday, and welcomed a White House reversal of President Donald Trump's decision to pull out all U.S.
'It is believed that the Wakilindiini might have been driven out by the Portuguese in the 15th century, as supported by the presence of St Joseph Fortress, a nameless fortress, a Portuguese Redoubt at the Mama Ngina site,' reads part of report from NMK.
During the Battle of Loos, while holding the rank of corporal, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for bravery and devotion to duty at the Hohenzollern Redoubt on September 25 to 27.
All the conditions are in place now for what could very well spiral downwards into a humanitarian tragedy of unparalleled proportions and the focus of the Security Council meeting must be to avert that and ensure the safety and security of those civilians trapped in the last remaining rebel redoubt.
WHERE in the US is the active volcano Mount Redoubt? WHEN was the World War One Battle of Caporetto?
"It was presented to Cardiff Corporation by the War Office in recognition of the town's contribution in the struggle to capture the Great Redoubt.
Yarmuk and the surroundings are now Daesh's largest urban redoubt in Syria or neighboring Iraq.