sometimes used in English and more frequently used in French is "national reduit" (réduit national) to describe the holding of the centre of a country while...

National Redoubt (German: Schweizer Reduit; French: Réduit national; Italian: Ridotto nazionale; Romansh: Reduit nazional) is a defensive plan developed...

Insurrection fortifications, and the medieval Wawel Castle and city walls. Wawel Citadel Fortress Bastion III "Kleparz" – a standard reduit fortification from...

and can be a permanent structure or a hastily constructed temporary fortification. The word means "a place of retreat". Redoubts were a component of the...

National Redoubt (French: Réduit national, Dutch: Stelling van Antwerpen) was a strategic defensive belt of fortifications built in Belgium. The National...

The Fort du Trou-d'Enfer, also known as the Réduit du Trou-d'Enfer, is one of the fortifications of Paris, It is located in Marly-le-Roi, in the departement...

(French: Réduit national) - a defensive belt of fortifications in Belgium Fort du Trou-d'Enfer (a.k.a. Réduit du Trou-d'Enfer) - one of the fortifications of...

Forteresse de Luxembourg; German: Festung Luxemburg) is the former fortifications of Luxembourg City, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which...

marking out the outline of the first fortifications – the defensive barracks of the Winiary fort (later the reduit). Building began on 23 June 1828 (the...

assumed to be a jocular reference to the perceived similarity of the fortifications to the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once...

defensive belt of fortifications built in two rings to defend Antwerp. Antwerp was designated to be a national redoubt (French: Réduit national or Dutch:...

"investment"). This is typically coupled with attempts to reduce the fortifications by means of siege engines, artillery bombardment, mining (also known...

between 1889 and 1892 as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications. The main réduit was sited on the southwestern side of the roughly 1,000-metre...

A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. It...

A polygonal fort is a type of fortification originating in France in the late 18th century and fully developed in Germany in the first half of the 19th...

time, with a regular square grid street pattern inside an octagonal fortification. Generous space was given to a central square across the four blocks...

ceintures de Lyon ([sɛ̃.tyʁ də ljɔ̃]; "Belts of Lyon") were a series of fortifications built between 1830 and 1890 around the city of Lyon, France, to protect...

surface, due to the presence of a layer of clay. The réduit comprises the principal fortification of Villey-le-Sec. Constructed at the southwestern angle...

ˌɑmstərˈdɑm]; "Defence Line of Amsterdam") is a 135-kilometre (84 mi) fortification line around Amsterdam, which would function as a national redoubt. It...

line of fortifications built by the attackers around the besieged fortification facing towards it. Contravallation: a second line of fortifications behind...

GFM cloche. The entry reaches the galleries below by a shaft. The planned réduit for long-range 145mm or 155mm guns was never built. Its entry was partially...

The main fortification associated with the Kyiv Fortress (where located the Historic and Architectural Museum) is the Hospital fortification.[citation...

USS Tuscaloosa on 8 Dec. 1940. The US Navy built a naval air station at Reduit in 1941 under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement for the Battle of the Caribbean...

is more than 60m high, at whose summit and base are the remains of fortifications and barracks, the point reaches towards the north-east via the rocher...

possibly between 1940 and 1944. From 1852 to 1854, a fort known as the réduit de Quélern was built to plans by Vauban, with modifications. It is a square-plan...

peninsula. As well as its fortifications, the site also houses the ruins of the manor of Coecilian. Kerbonn's many fortifications form part of the defences...

ISBN 978-3-932577-88-8. Kaufmann, J. E.; Kaufmann, H. W. (2014-07-02). The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815–1945: The Central States: Germany, Austria-Hungry and...

semi-circular gun battery ringed by a parapet with twenty-two embrasures. A tour-réduit and two blockhouses are located at the gorge. The fort is further protected...

part of this space, relative to the closing device, door or window. In fortification this refers to the outward splay of a window or of an arrowslit on the...

and third redoubt were the first to be completed, in 1830, and the main réduit was finished in 1832. In 1834 three infantry battalions were garrisoned...