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Supporting points were generally designated as "S.P. 7" (or other number), or as "Redoubts" with identifying names.
The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride
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In this place we raised two Redoubts each capable of containing a Battalion with some Artillery.
Wild Geese at Fontenoy de Brantigny........................ 2007
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In this place we raised two Redoubts each capable of containing a Battalion with some Artillery.
Archive 2007-09-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Half battalions of the 1st, 60th, and Rifle Brigade take day and day about on Observation Hill and King's Post, which is the continuation of Cove Redoubts.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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Course about Northeasterly and runs into the Land about Two miles; from the Head of this Bay we had a line of Forts & Redoubts all connected by Breast Works and some part of it picketed, up
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston
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Half the Battalion -- that is four companies -- was sent to assist with the London Defences near Ashford, where the men learnt to construct what the Royal Engineers were pleased to call "Low Command Redoubts," and which were badly sited on forward slopes.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
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Jago_, one of seven Guns, the other of fifteen, which served as Redoubts to the Castle of _Boccachica_.
An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations Charles Knowles
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Yorktown, and Redoubts 4 and 5, and their appertinent defences; Longstreet to the command of the centre, which extended from Dam No. 1 to the right of the lateral defences of Redoubt No. 5; and G.W. Smith to the command of the reserve.
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When I took command I found the enemy busily engaged in constructing trenches and earthworks in front of Redoubts 4 and 5 and of Wynn's Mill.
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Redoubts Nos. 4 and 5 with the curtain and lateral works had been from necessity constructed on ground sloping towards the enemy, and the interior and rear of them were therefore much exposed to his fire.
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