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  • The Redan is a succession of little batteries, each containing two or three guns, with traverses behind each division; and hidden away under gabions, sand-bags, and earth, are little huts in which the officers and men used to live.

    Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol 1856

  • We thus got up to within a hundred yards of the Russian guns in a fort they called the Redan, and jumped into a pit which the enemy had themselves dug to shelter their own riflemen, who came there at night to annoy our working parties.

    Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • So I reached Cathcart's Hill crowded with non-combatants, and, leaving there the mules, loaded myself with what provisions I could carry, and -- it was a work of no little difficulty and danger -- succeeded in reaching the reserves of Sir Henry Barnard's division, which was to have stormed something, I forget what; but when they found the attack upon the Redan was a failure, very wisely abstained.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

  • The Redan was a large triangular redoubt, with the base resting on the river and having an artificial moat through the middle and on its other two sides.

    The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

  • In a subsequent letter he wrote: "Remember, in spite of all the absurd reports in the papers, that our troops never once passed the abattis in front of the Redan, which is sixty yards from it, and that we have never spiked a gun of the Russians," and before closing his narrative account of the Redan, the passage in which Mr Kinglake refers to

    The Life of Gordon, Volume I Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • Battery No. 1, on the main-land, called the Redan, armed with six guns, was three thousand yards in an air-line above the point of the island.

    From Fort Henry to Corinth 1861

  • So I reached Cathcart's Hill crowded with noncombatants, and, leaving there the mules, loaded myself with what provisions I could carry, and – it was a work of no little difficulty and danger – succeeded in reaching the reserves of Sir Henry Barnard's division, which was to have stormed something, I forget what; but when they found the attack upon the Redan was a failure, very wisely abstained.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 1857

  • Crimea had gained for himself the _sobriquet_ of 'Redan' Massy.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Then, of course, one of the world's most replicated greens is the par-3 "Redan" green on No. 15, which is a large, blind green guarded by steep bunkering.

    unknown title 2009

  • Then, of course, one of the world's most replicated greens is the par-3 "Redan" green on No. 15, which is a large, blind green guarded by steep bunkering.

    unknown title 2009

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