In order to protect New Plymouth, or the Taranaki district, a chain of redoubts was built, and from one of these, on the Waitara River, a little party of men of the 40th Regiment moved out to locate the Maories known to be in the bush.
On the Asiatic side of the Narrows, near Chanak, was a system of redoubts of equal strength.
Instead the remnants of the line had collected themselves in the series of independent redoubts which had seemingly been prepared for just such an emergency.
The action of the rain has pitted the limestone with funnel-shaped holes which form natural redoubts for machine guns; and there are larger depressions and caves where heavier pieces of artillery may be placed in excellent shelter.
Deep trenches had been dug on the heights and on the sides of the slopes while strong redoubts had been built at two dominating positions.
The last named was so called because it was an elaborate system of trenches and redoubts in an angle between two roads.
St. Pierre is a long handsome town, situated on the shore of an open bay, and flanked by a strong battery at either end; also defended by two redoubts on the hills which overhang the town.
The redoubts and infantry works particularly were heavily bombarded.
Earth redoubts and trenches between formed the German line of defence.
The defence on both sides consequently centred around the woods, villages, and numerous farms, which were converted into redoubts with concrete blockhouses and deep wire entanglements.
In the centre, many farms, redoubts and blockhouses were captured.
Rocky Hill, in rear of Fort Putnam, and redoubts Nos.
All these operations were conducted under the direction of Major-General McDougall, commanding in the Highlands; and in 1779, they were further strengthened and improved, while additional works were thrown up known as redoubts Nos.
Opposite the gate of the fortress of Janina, at the head of the collapsed bridge, stood a stone building, fenced about with redoubts and palisades, which had now fallen into the hands of the Suliotes.
Early this morning the enemy sunk another fire-ship and two transports; at seven in the evening they attempted to storm the flanking redoubts to the right, but were repulsed with considerable loss.
Two gouaches had been painted by the famous miniaturist Van Blarenberghe, one representing the storming of the redoubts at Yorktown, the other the surrender of the garrison.
The old redoubts of Kingston, on the left, were defenses used in early days against the Indians.
The enemy, too, were in possession of the little redoubts around, and could have poured in showers of shells and ricochet balls that would have made dreadful slaughter.
To be still more particular: there were three redoubts on the right of the line, and on the right of them quite near the swamp, was a sailor's battery of nine pounders, covered by a company of the British legion.
And indeed it was a castle compared with the wretched redoubts of poverty around it.
The officers lodged in a house belonging to the Austin friars, around which the troops pitched their tents--the whole being defended by redoubts and palisades raised under the direction of a French deserter, who led a company.
Fortifications were raised, andredoubts were constructed in which to secrete the Treasury funds.
He was travelling from village to village, haranguing the Hauhaus, and explaining his new plan of campaign, which briefly was to make surprise attacks on small isolated redoubts garrisoned by the white soldiers, and to lay ambuscades.
As a commander, his task was a difficult one; when the siege commenced he had no army; when the army was formed, it was encompassed by earthworks and redoubts so strong that even better soldiers would have failed to carry them.
Anyhow they are playing a deep game, for, as far as I can hear, they have not fired a single siege-gun yet, either against our redoubts or forts.
The fall of the leaves enables us to distinguish clearly the earthworks and the redoubts which the Prussians have thrown up.
At one in the morning a tremendous cannonade from all the forts and redoubts round Paris commenced.
The redoubts of Moulin Saqui and Hautes Bruyères were firing heavily, and the Prussians were replying from Chatillon.
On the 7th the Battalion relieved the 27th Punjabis (Sirhind) at Ludhiana Lodge, and provided detachments to hold Church and Hills Redoubts and Curzon Post, the front line being held by the 4th King's.
The Engineers were employed in digging fresh redoubts in dead ground to the rear of the defensive flank line, while the infantry companies were kept as a reserve at Battalion Headquarters.
B and D Companies meanwhile had not been idle but had passed the night providing a covering party to a company of the Cheshire Pioneers, by whom a chain of redoubts had been dug in the line selected for the defensive flank.
Two Platoons each of B and C Companies (Moore and Vine) to Redoubts D5 and D6 respectively.
Many times in the course of the battle, redoubts which thought themselves not yet attacked suddenly realised that in the fog they had been surrounded and cut off.
These redoubts were close to Windy Corner on Forresters Lane, and were subsequently known as Dogs and Edward Posts.
During the evening of relief reports of the full success of the battle of the 25th September reached the Battalion, including the splendid news of the fall of the famous series of German redoubts on the Thiepval Ridge.
The Forward Zone, about 1000 yards in depth, relied for its defence on small companyredoubts with the space between taken up by hidden machine-guns.
The Battle Zone redoubts were inadequate and insufficiently wired, while the Rear Zone line was merely spit-locked.
The outposts were already engaged, and as soon as daylight came he drew back the men from the village to the ridge on which the redoubts were built.
These redoubts had been located by Colonel Poe, United States Engineers, at the time of our advance on Kenesaw, the previous June.
He had two small redoubts on either side of the railroad, overlooking the village of Allatoona, and the warehouses, in which were stored over a million rations of bread.
On the afternoon of the ninth, several batteries and redoubts were completed, and a general discharge of twenty-four and eighteen pounders was commenced by the Americans on the right.
The works, which surrounded the village, consisted of seven redoubts and six batteries on the land side, connected by intrenchments.
I alighted on the borders of a wood a short distance from the Norristown road, and sketched the remains of one of the American redoubts pictured on page 335, which lies, almost unknown, within the embrace of the forest.
Two redoubts (K and L) on the left of the besieged and advanced three hundred yards in front of the British works, flanked the second parallel, and greatly annoyed the men in the trenches.
These localities, with those of the redoubts mentioned on page 310, were all out of the city; its extent then being from Christian Street on the south, to Callowhill Street on the north, or the boundary of Spring Garden.
Near Mather s mill the remains of one of the redoubts are still quite prominent, and in various places in the vicinity may be seen vestiges of the chimneys of numerous huts of log and stone erected by the Americans.
On our way we visited the site of the two redoubts (K and L, on the map) captured respectively by the Americans and French.
The two redoubts captured on the sixteenth to be surrendered, one to the Americans, the other to the French troops.
With the Third Texas in advance we drove in their pickets and took possession of all the redoubtsbut the larger central one.
The enemy had the advantage of several redoubts and rifle-pits, the main central redoubt being situated on the plank road leading from Benton to Yazoo City.
In the redoubtswere taken three four-pounders and sixteen or seventeen swivels.
The enemy's position was now in front, and consisted of a line of redoubts and entrenchments on the commanding heights of Petrizel.
The troops encamped for the night on the position which they had won, while the enemy took up a second position, strengthened by two redoubts connected by an entrenchment.
Nothing was done to strengthen these frontier posts, which were left wholly without redoubts or intrenchments into which the garrison could withdraw in case of attack.
Upon the side of the swamp there was not much fear of attack, but three redoubts were erected to prevent a surprise from this direction.
The defense on the left, consisting of two strong redoubts and several batteries, was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Cruger.
Some redoubts were thrown up to cover New York during the absence of the main part of the British force.
Infantry to push from this quarter towards Sterbohol yonder, and then plunge into their redoubts and them!
They hurried up the height, whence they could look down on the South Valley and across the line of redoubts held by the Turks.
To my mind," observed Jack, "the first thing to be done would be to retake the redoubtsand prevent the Russians from carrying off the guns they captured from the Turks.
I only wish we had a few hundred of our bluejackets; we should very soon, I suspect, be masters of one or more of the redoubts the Russians have got hold of.
The French kept up an unremitting cannonade, but it became evident that the redoubts must be taken in order to subdue the place.
In Yorktown itself the English had thrown up two redoubts and had drawn some lines of wall.
When the redoubts were taken, he drew a long breath and said to Knox: "The work is done, and well done.
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