Passing further to the north, another redoubt is met, mounting four guns; this commands a portion of the railroad. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial Intelligence] Reference
All the troops at work at daylight finishing the redoubt, which is named Fort Wellington. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
Its roofs were concealed by the upper edge of the walls, a kind of redoubt over which fire-locks and catapults had frequently peered. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference
A redoubt (the "Blockhouse"), built by Colonel Bouquet in. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
They retook for the fourth time that deadly redoubt they call 'Le. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
That was the presumably impregnable French military redoubt in Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [Intervention Fatigue] Reference
Nov. 7, Gen. Yamada with more than 300 men was behind the redoubt walls of. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Feminists groaned, but those inside the palace redoubt were quietly satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Her True Face] Reference
Nevertheless, "U.N." has become a magic phrase, the last redoubt for pacifists. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Thing Iraqis Need] Reference
Until 1914 the military was the last redoubt of romantics in the industrial age. From Wordnik.com. [From Bayonets To Tomahawks] Reference
'She is very red,' he said; ''tis a sign that yon famous redoubt will cost us dear.'. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
This redoubt contained several machine guns, with overhead cover, and a first-aid post. From Wordnik.com. [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference
But the mountain redoubt that once sat peacefully between India and China is no Shangri-La. From Wordnik.com. [Nepal: A Captive Land] Reference
They opened a vigorous fire upon the enemy, who replied with energy, and soon the redoubt of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Nineveh, including the major city of Mosul, is the major remaining redoubt for Iraqi Al Qaeda. From Wordnik.com. [One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward] Reference
In the course of the siege it became necessary to capture a certain redoubt possessed by the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
Then the order came that the force was to form up by the redoubt nearest the main road on their left. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Captain Bane was quartermaster, and had his family in the house of a man named Garner, near the redoubt. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Falwell helped lead the GOP migration from his redoubt in Lynchburg, a genteel old city in the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom and the Power] Reference
Last Saturday NEWSWEEK interviewed a man who claimed to have just returned from Al Qaeda's mountain redoubt. From Wordnik.com. ['Leave No Man Behind'] Reference
Adler arrived with her family in 2003 from Kiryat Arba, a hard-core redoubt just outside the city of Hebron. From Wordnik.com. [LAST STAND IN SAMARIA] Reference
So General Dickinson sent an officer to the redoubt to inspect each sack as it is carried past by the ox trains. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
He had been sent with a company, the night before, about a thousand strong, to throw up a redoubt on Bunker's hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
A number of the letters also came from Wilson's fraternity brothers in Kappa Alpha, a white, all-male redoubt on campus. From Wordnik.com. [Digging For Dirt] Reference
All the wood inside was soon consumed, and the men were compelled to go outside the redoubt for it, and to split it, too. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Last Tuesday the residents of Katmandu were jarringly reminded that their nation is not the idyllic redoubt it used to be. From Wordnik.com. [THE END OF SHANGRI-LA] Reference
I then ordered the train to back to the depot, and drew back the battalion of regulars to the small earth redoubt near it. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The real dismay was over the breaching of what many regard as the last redoubt of privacy in modern life, the confidences of the couch. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets Of The Couch] Reference
IT was such a pleasant surprise yesterday when General Bourke drove up to the redoubt on his way to Camp Supply from dear old Fort Lyon. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
During the second half of May there were attacks on the Turkish line of intrenchments in front of Kereves Dere and the redoubt called the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP candidate in the old shipbuilding redoubt of Govan, joined the party at age 16, midway through the Thatcher years. From Wordnik.com. [Blue, White, Red] Reference
We examined the redoubt named "Sanders," where, on the Sunday previous, three brigades of the enemy had assaulted and met a bloody repulse. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
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