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n. - A forbidding stronghold.

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  • Passing further to the north, another redoubt is met, mounting four guns; this commands a portion of the railroad.
  • All the troops at work at daylight finishing the redoubt, which is named Fort Wellington.
  • Its roofs were concealed by the upper edge of the walls, a kind of redoubt over which fire-locks and catapults had frequently peered.
  • A redoubt (the "Blockhouse"), built by Colonel Bouquet in
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