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redan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redan \Re*dan"\ (r?*d?n"), n. [F., for OF. redent a double notching or jagging, as in the teeth of a saw, fr. L. pref. re- re- + dens, dentis, a tooth. Cf. Redented.] [Written sometimes redent and redens.]
(Fort.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.
Wiktionary
n. A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 12106
Land area (2000): 9.554174 sq. miles (24.745197 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.049571 sq. miles (0.128388 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.603745 sq. miles (24.873585 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63952
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.739256 N, 84.165781 W
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Wikipedia
Redan (a French word for "projection", "salient") is a term related to fortifications. It is a work in a V-shaped salient angle toward an expected attack. It can be made from earthworks or other material.
The redan developed from the lunette, originally a half-moon-shaped outwork; with shorter flanks it became a redan.
Redan may refer to:
- Redan, a fortification work in a V-shaped salient angled toward an expected attack
- Battle of the Great Redan, a major battle during the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War
- Redan hole, a golf hole with a sloping, "v" shaped green, named after the fortification
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Redan, Georgia, a town in the United States
- Redan High School
- Redan, Victoria, a suburb in Australia
- A hamlet in Inkerman, Renfrewshire
- A community in Elizabethtown-Kitley, Ontario Township in Ontario, Canada
- Iwan Redan, Dutch footballer
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.