redoubt

• They're our last redoubt, and the trends even there are not encouraging as unemployment rises and 401 (k) s are decimated. —  Daily Kos
• Reserve and restraint is all we have to bravely build a bold redoubt, a bristling battlement, a bastion, a bulwark against the beleaguer of Democrat Depression Deux. —  Wonkette » top
• On its left is a strong redoubt, which is armed with Spanish artillery; on the right is another very strong battery, on a rise close to Talavera; while other batteries sweep the road to Madrid. —  Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
• The soldiers after that marched on without a murmur, struck at once with the magnanimity of their commander, and the ingenuity of his device to remind them of their duty Brief Explanation.--A French colonel, in taking a redoubt from the Russians on the Moskwa, lost twelve hundred of his men, more than one half of whom remained dead in the entrenchment which they had so energetically carried. —  The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection
• The interest of her appeal for Feller had kept up her strength after the excitement of the fight for the redoubt was over. —  The Last Shot

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