V-shaped rampart

Usage examples of redan.

Parties of brave men struggled up to the very abattis of the Redan, and there, unsupported and powerless, were shot down.

It was, in fact, the siege of Richmond which General Grant had undertaken, and the fighting consisted less of battles, in the ordinary acceptation of that word, than of attempts to break through the lines of his adversary--now north of James River, now east of Petersburg, now at some point in the long chain of redans which guarded the approaches to the coveted Southside Railroad, which, once in possession of the Federal commander, would give him victory.

They brought them from the Malakoff, from the Redan, Inkerman, Balaklava--every where.

Lieutenant Sutch went back in thought over twenty years, as he sat on his garden-chair, to a time before he had taken part, as an officer of the Naval Brigade, in that unsuccessful onslaught on the Redan.

Buildings which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles.

Structures which have since been pulled down formed redans, angles, and squares.