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  • 31redoubt — n. Mil. an outwork or fieldwork usu. square or polygonal and without flanking defences. Etymology: F redoute f. obs. It. ridotta f. med.L reductus refuge f. past part. of L reducere withdraw (see REDUCE): b after DOUBT (cf. REDOUBTABLE) …

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  • 32Redoubt,Mount — Re·doubt (rēʹdout ), Mount A volcano, 3,111 m (10,200 ft) high, of southern Alaska. The highest peak of the Aleutian Range, it erupted in 1989 for the first time in 25 years. * * * …

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  • 33REDOUBT KALI —    a Russian fort on the E. coast of the Black Sea, 10 m. N. of Poti, the chief place for shipping Circassian girls to Turkey; captured by the British in 1854 …

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  • 34Mount Redoubt — This article is about the Alaskan volcano. For other uses, see Mount Redoubt (disambiguation). Mount Redoubt Steaming at the active summit lava dome on May 8, 2009 …

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  • 35Shorncliffe Redoubt — is a British Napoleonic earthworks fort of great historic importance, as it is the birth place of modern light infantry tactics. The site is approximately 300 feet by 300 feet and is situated on the Kentish Coast in Sandgate, Kent at… …

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  • 36Mount Redoubt (Alaska) — Mount Redoubt Südseite des Vulkans, 1980 Höhe 3.108 m …

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  • 37National Redoubt (Switzerland) — Plan of the Defence lines of the Swiss National Redoubt The Swiss National Redoubt (Schweizer Alpenfestung or Réduit suisse) was a defensive plan developed by the Swiss government beginning in the 1880s to respond to foreign invasion. In the… …

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  • 38Cimarron Redoubt — U.S. National Register of Historic Places …

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  • 39National redoubt — A national redoubt is a general term for an area to which the (remnant) forces of a nation can be withdrawn if the main battle has been lost or even beforehand if defeat is considered inevitable. Typically a region is chosen with a geography… …

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  • 40Mont Redoubt — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Mont Redoubt (Washington). Mont Redoubt Le mont Redoubt en 1980 Géographie …

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