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Example sentences for "redoubt"

Lexicographically close words:
redooced; redouble; redoubled; redoubles; redoubling; redoubtable; redoubted; redoubts; redound; redounded
  1. Kennie led the attack against the redoubt on the right, and succeeded in entering, but found there his grave.

  2. Beside the shore batteries on Carpenter's Island, there was a redoubt further inland, and another redoubt protected Webb's Ferry and the road to Philadelphia.

  3. Pigot's front got near the redoubt before the Americans poured in their fire, which was deadly enough to send the staggered column wildly back.

  4. On Red and Paulus Hooks, and at various points along the shores of the East and Hudson rivers, were erected earthworks, and a strong redoubt was built upon Governor's Island.

  5. D, French redoubt upon the low ground for about 200 men, commanded by the opposite side.

  6. Stirling, dispatched from the redoubt at F F, and landing at X, threatened to intercept Cadwallader, when the Americans fell back to the lines above Fort Washington.

  7. Unfinished Redoubt at a mile and a third from the fort, near the road.

  8. Direction in which the attack was made upon the redoubt and breastwork.

  9. At a later day it was charged that Lafayette had ordered the garrison of the small redoubt to be put to the sword in revenge for the murder of Alexander Scammell.

  10. Battery of cannon, howitzers, and mortars on Copp's Hill, that battered the redoubt and set fire to Charlestown.

  11. In 1809, Eliot, in his Biographical Dictionary, represents Prescott as commanding at the redoubt and Stark at the rail fence.

  12. Richard Williams, made and sent over to England a plan showing the "redoubt taken from the rebels by General Howe", the British camp on the higher summit of Bunker Hill, together with the American lines at Cambridge and Roxbury.

  13. Illustration] Prescott's eye, observing Howe's dispositions, saw he was aiming to advance along the Mystick and take the redoubt in reverse.

  14. Opposite to Johnstone's redoubt it is so steep that your soldiers could scarce be able to climb it, even without the encumbrance of their arms.

  15. The swampy, sinking ground, from the redoubt to the foot of the hill, was not one of the smallest difficulties you had in your way to come at us.

  16. I had likewise the project of placing a battery and a redoubt upon the upper point of the bay which is opposite to the west end of Isle aux Coudres.

  17. The redoubt becomes the scene of a huge massacre.

  18. So stand also the French, who have in their centre the Shevardino redoubt beyond the Kalotcha.

  19. The firing from the top of the redoubt has ceased.

  20. Each redoubt overlooked the storehouses close by the railroad, and each could aid the other defensively by catching in flank the attacking force of the other.

  21. I then ordered the train to back to the depot, and drew back the battalion of regulars to the small earth redoubt near it.

  22. We examined the redoubt named "Sanders," where, on the Sunday previous, three brigades of the enemy had assaulted and met a bloody repulse.

  23. Before him was a broken and rocky ascent, with a redoubt midway in its height.

  24. Up the steep rocks climbed the gallant stormers, broke into the redoubt with a wild cheer, and put its defenders to flight.

  25. But Major Henderson, in spite of his wounds, General Sir Archibald Hunter, and Major King were in the redoubt at that moment, and therefore the honours are divided.

  26. He now formed a redoubt at the village of Napoleon, about five miles from Cape Coast, and several others being thrown up, the intermediate country to the south was well protected.

  27. General Burgoyne wrote that, in the third attack, the discipline and courage of the British private soldiers also broke down and that when the redoubt was carried the officers of some corps were almost alone.

  28. Now he saw the American force on Breed's Hill throwing up a defiant and menacing redoubt and entrenchments.

  29. Many passed the ditch and scaled the parapet only to be shot down in the redoubt by the unerring riflemen behind the entrenched line.

  30. A redoubt was also begun at a point nearer the wood, fronting the American left, and some guns mounted by the thirty-first.

  31. Our outposts were driven in, and the head of the column pushing forward occupied the unfinished redoubt in front of our entrenched line before more than two or three discharges of artillery could be made.

  32. Tell me," said he "when the redoubt over the Jackson road was blown up, they said a nigger came down in your lines alive.

  33. Eyes staring at the big redoubt were dimmed.

  34. Silently the long blue files wound into position behind the earth barriers which hid them from the enemy, coiled and ready to strike when the towering redoubt on the Jackson road should rise heavenwards.

  35. Glazunof's expedition was outfitted the same year (1833) in which the St. Michael redoubt was established.

  36. This particular redoubt was a circular sandbagged construction large enough to allow sixty men to fire through the loopholes, and had two lines of entanglements round it with one narrow path through them to enable us to get in or out.

  37. The next time we went to the front line, my platoon was ordered to man a redoubt behind the front trench.

  38. On the 21st of May we went "Over the Top" at Festubert, with the object of capturing a strong German redoubt called "Bechill.

  39. The idea of a redoubt is in case the enemy breaks through the front line the men manning it can pour enfilade fire into the enemy while they are passing in their advance to the second line of trenches.

  40. Their first operation was a successful attack upon a redoubt in the Russian front, but which--a great error in war--was situated too distant from it to be effectually supported.

  41. The eminence called the Sheepwalk was also in danger of being lost, and the exertions of Macdonald put him in possession of the redoubt called the Swedish Camp.

  42. The stone redoubt was transformed into a volcano; it was belching fire from all four sides.

  43. Those nine hundred men were indeed the stone redoubt that General Bonaparte had ordered them to be.

  44. A daring assault had meanwhile carried the grand battery, and from a salient post on Light-house Point Pepperell's guns were soon able to silence the island redoubt at the mouth of the harbour.

  45. Aware of these conditions, the French had erected a strong redoubt at the edge of the strand, and posted a large force of musketeers in the intrenchments capping the heights above it.

  46. The French gave way before their impetuous rush, and abandoned the redoubt at the foot of the hill.

  47. On the 7th, before daybreak, Napoleon was already on the battlefield, near the redoubt which had been gained on the evening of the 5th.

  48. From redoubt to redoubt, from convent to convent, General Junot had slowly advanced, till the middle of January, 1809.

  49. It was this position which Napoleon first gave orders to attack, in order to carry a detached redoubt placed on a mamelon.

  50. She is very red,' he said; ''tis a sign that yon famous redoubt will cost us dear.

  51. The moon rose behind the redoubt of Cheverino, situate at twice cannon-shot from our bivouac.

  52. For an instant the black outline of the redoubt stood out against the moon's brilliant disc, resembling the cone of a volcano at the moment of an eruption.

  53. At last I heard a shout of victory, and, the smoke diminishing, I saw the redoubt completely covered with blood and dead bodies.

  54. Foutre, mon cher, but the redoubt is taken.

  55. They opened a vigorous fire upon the enemy, who replied with energy, and soon the redoubt of Cheverino disappeared behind a cloud of smoke.

  56. The second was charged to take the redoubt in flank on the side of the gorge; the two others were to deliver the assault.

  57. The redoubt was again enveloped in smoke.

  58. A simple palisade with bastions, badly enough maintained, offers the sole defence with a rather wretched redoubt on a little rising ground, which serves as a boulevard and shelves down to a little square.

  59. Notre-Dame Street was first marked out, starting from a well opened by a former syndic, Gabriel le Sel dit Duclos, and extending eastward to the mill redoubt on the elevated portion of ground called afterwards "Citadel hill.

  60. The second phase was to attack the enemy's front-line system from El Arish Redoubt to the sea at Sea Post.

  61. Not many Turks in El Arish Redoubt lived to relate that night's story.

  62. It had been made into a strong redoubt and was well held by a substantial garrison adequately dug in and supported by nests of machine-gunners.

  63. The vigorous resistance of the Turks on Umbrella Hill and El Arish Redoubt resulted in our having to bury over 350 enemy dead in these positions.

  64. The creek was called Redoubt Kill, or Creek, and is now known by the corrupted name of Rondout Creek.

  65. Bunker Hill Monument now stands upon the spot where Prescott's redoubt was thrown up.

  66. Had they and the strong redoubt on Plum Point been in existence a year sooner, the marauding expedition of Vaughan and Wallace, up the Hudson, could not have occurred.

  67. On the southeast side of the redoubt was a deep hollow.

  68. At twelve o'clock the men in the redoubt ceased work, sent off their intrenching tools, took some refreshments, hoisted the New England flag, and prepared to fight.

  69. The high point on the left is the place where the redoubt was thrown up.

  70. I rode first to the former place, and climbed to the summit of the great obelisk that stands upon the site of the redoubt upon Breed's Hill.

  71. All was order and firmness at the redoubt on Breed's Hill, as the enemy advanced.

  72. The loose stones in the redoubt were collected for use as missiles if necessary, and all resolved to fight as long as a ray of hope appeared.

  73. About two thousand were embarked to go 'Gainst the redoubt and formidable foe.

  74. He was a lieutenant in Captain Stevens's company, and commanded Redoubt No.

  75. Lifting the eyes to the westward, the lofty summit of Mount Independence, crested by the gray ruins of Fort Putnam, and beyond it the loftier apex of Redoubt Hill, are seen.

  76. This monument stands in the center of the grounds included within the breast-works of the old redoubt on Breed's Hill.

  77. It was therefore immediately abandoned to the British, as was also Fort Constitution, another redoubt near at hand.

  78. The creek took the name of Redoubt Kill, afterward Rundoubt, and at last Rondout.

  79. The name Rondout had its derivation from a redoubt that was built on the banks of the creek.

  80. A redoubt was built by the Dutch on the bank of the creek near the old landing place, and they called the creek Redoubt Kill, or Creek.

  81. It was clear, therefore, that unless the Dujailah redoubt could be carried that day the scarcity of water would, of itself, compel the troops to fall back.

  82. This small fort or redoubt was defended by Lieut.

  83. As we marched past Comphor redoubt to the Johnson farm, a mile to the south, we had an opportunity to witness the terrible slaughter the victory had cost the enemy.

  84. The capture of this small redoubt was all they had gained in two day's persistent fighting, and then only after a fearful loss in killed and wounded.

  85. On the left moved forward the Light Division under Sir George Brown, opposed to whom were the Great Redoubt and no fewer than eighteen battalions of infantry, including the famous Kayan battalion.

  86. The cavalry being completely repulsed, Sir Ralph walked firmly to the redoubt on the right of the Guards, from which a commanding view of the entire battlefield could be obtained.

  87. Successively they held a barricade, a pagoda, and the palace and redoubt of Minhla.

  88. On the night of the 8th of January, the investment was regularly commenced, and the redoubt on the upper Teson stormed by three companies of the 52nd with trifling loss.

  89. While the British right was, from want of ammunition, nearly hors de combat, the French approached the redoubt once more.

  90. Eight hundred yards distant from the land-front, the convent of San Bartolemeo, with a redoubt and circular fieldwork, were garrisoned.


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