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Redoubt

Redoubt | Redoubtable | Redoubts

Redoubt meaning

A small, temporary, military fortification. | A reinforced refuge; a fort. | A place of safety or refuge.

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As China tensions simmer across the Pacific, America’s Western Pacific redoubt of Guam is girding for a knockout hit by Super Typhoon Mawar.

These are also likely to be a last redoubt of lawyers.

A force spokesman said: "Following community reporting and local police investigations a male has now been arrested following a spate of criminal damage and graffiti in the Redoubt area of Eastbourne.

California is a stronghold of liberalism, but the Central Valley, where the scent of manure rims the highways and cattle ranchers tend winter grass, is a redoubt of conservatism.

Forced from this redoubt, ISIS has reconstituted itself in other countries, going underground in less detectable — but more dangerous — forms.

Labour is coming from having only one seat in Scotland, which used to be their safest redoubt.

A real redoubt for adventurous guitar music in the capital - and across South East England - the Windmill has proved to be a hub for countless new groups.

Redoubt Rd in Manukau where the four-lane highway will begin at the northern end.

They had been living with 21 other orphans at the camp since they were evacuated from the wreckage of Baghouz, Isil's last redoubt, in March.

At least 2,500 Isis fighters remain, all survivors of routs to the east and west of their last redoubt.

It’s the reader’s deepest insight into the Redoubt.

Over the last several weeks, however, Haley has undergone a transformation that has perplexed the U.N.’s reserved diplomatic community, which is ensconced within the Midtown redoubt of Turtle Bay on Manhattan’s far East Side.

Tumblr, the mainstream web’s last redoubt for niche smut in general and queer smut in particular, is going to clean house.

When Redoubt erupted in Alaska in 1989, an encounter with an eruption cloud from that volcanoes nearly brought down a jetliner.

According to the memoirs of the Reverend Mervyn S. Evers, Anglican chaplain to the Lancashire Fusiliers: "The Schwaben Redoubt'' by William Orpen.

Despite these rebellions, the Criollo oligarchy in Perú remained mostly Spanish loyalist, which accounts for the fact that the Viceroyalty of Peru became the last redoubt of the Spanish dominion in South America.

During this time, Baum's men constructed a small redoubt at the crest of the hill and hoped that the weather would prevent the Americans from attacking before reinforcements arrived.

Hamilton and his battalions fought bravely and took Redoubt No. 10 with bayonets in a nighttime action, as planned.

However, as the Arch was commissioned by the Senate, the absence of Christian symbols may reflect the role of the Curia at the time as a pagan redoubt.

In 1802, Tlingit warriors destroyed several Russian settlements, most notably Redoubt Saint Michael (Old Sitka), leaving New Russia as the only remaining outpost on mainland Alaska.