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1684 tr. J. Donneau de Visé Diary Siege of Luxembourg 26 The Enemies had made many Traverses within their Counterscarp, and the Besiegers, doeing their utmost to hinder their finishing this Work, made themselves Masters of the first Redan on the right, and that on the left [Fr. l'on se rendit maître des deux Traverses que les Ennemis y avoient faites contre Rival].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Redans are frequently used in the fortifying of Walls, where it is not necessary to be at the Expence of building Bastions.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxi. 88 A number of small piquets driven into the ground, at the several angles and redans.

1776 in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 159 It was..my intention to throw up a great number of large flèches or redans at certain distances, one behind another.

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 213 The distances of the redans from each other should not exceed 120 yards, in order that the fire from the faces of one redan may defend the saliants of the next.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 294 The long ranges of bastions and redans which covered miles of land under..Vauban.

1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. vi. 124 Not on the level ground, but on a salient corner or redan of earth, at the junction of two converging bank fences.

1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 67 Adelaide Carraway had taken London Society not by storm, but by sapping her way from bastion to bastion,..undermining, breaching, and always consolidating each barbican, ravelin, redan, counterscarp and glacis before moving on to the next, conscious of her own magnificent blonde beauty.

1966 D. Lavender Climax at Buena Vista vi. 112 Methodically they began picking off the enemy in the redan.

2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 16 July a2 Learn about redans, redoubts and parapets and create a fort with blocks at the museum.

1854 Times 6 Nov. 6/1 The chief objects we had to deal with were a round tower on our right, and the ‘Redan’.

1857 Glasgow Herald 22 July 2/6 The most important matter in the book is that yet disputed topic, the failure of the assault on the Redan.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. viii. 355 The failure of the first attack upon the Redan at Sebastopol, was attributed by the officers concerned in it to the impossibility of ‘forming’ the men who had gained an entrance into the fortress.

1938 E. L. Woodward Age of Reform ii. iii. 277 The Redan was not captured, but the French took the strong Malakoff redoubt which dominated the defence position.

1991 J. Shepherd Crimean Doctors xiii. 452 Opposite the British sector was the formidable fortress of the Redan.