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What is a redan?

What is a redan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V.
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The approaches to the Malakoff and the redan were not attended with greater peril.
I have just been in the redan, which exhibits a fearful scene.
Now came the turn of the British, who had to attack the redan.
In Redan,1965, he arranged three tiers of timber in a pattern of inverted triangles, horizontally distributing their considerable weight.
The hull is made of a redan on the upper bilge at the third front, which allows, besides pushing back the spray, to rapidly increase the volume of buoyancy and limit the charging seas.
First, a rectangular earth enceinte with bastions at the corners was built, along with fosse, redan and ravelin.

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