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    Belgium's national redoubt. National Redoubt (French: Réduit national, German: Schweizer Réduit) was a strategy by which the Swiss would first seek to...
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    National Redoubt (German: Schweizer Reduit; French: Réduit national; Italian: Ridotto nazionale; Romansh: Reduit nazional) is a defensive plan developed...
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    The fort Quélern or réduit de Quélern is a castle and prison in the commune of Roscanvel in France. This fort was built between 1852 and 1854 on modified...
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    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...
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    The National Redoubt (French: Réduit national, Dutch: Stelling van Antwerpen) was a strategic defensive belt of fortifications built in Belgium. The National...
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  • Reduit or Réduit may refer to: Reduit - a fortified structure such as a citadel Réduit, Moka - a suburb in the village of Moka, Mauritius National Redoubt...
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    Unlike earlier forts, polygonal forts had no bastions, which had proved to be vulnerable. As part of ring fortresses, polygonal forts were generally arranged...
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  • a lack of funds. The fort consists of a semi-circular gun battery ringed by a parapet with twenty-two embrasures. A tour-réduit and two blockhouses are...
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    Fort Vaux (French: Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended...
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    Fort de Joux (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ də ʒu]) or Château de Joux (French pronunciation: [ʃato də ʒu]) is a castle, later transformed into a fort,...
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    Wadowice. Fort 50 "Prokocim" Fort 51 "Rajsko" Fort 52 "Borek" Fort 53 "Bodzów" Fort 44 "Tonie" Fort 44a "Pękowice" Fort 45a "Bibice" Fort 48a "Mistrzejowice"...
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    Jeżyce district (there is also an estate there named Bonin). The fort had a main reduit (Kernwerk) on the southern (city) side, flanked by four redoubts...
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    The Fort de la Pompelle, also known as Fort Herbillon, is one of a number of forts built around Reims after 1870 as part of a fortification belt in the...
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    Fort Douaumont (French: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun...
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    Fort Souville, briefly called Fort Lemoine, was one of the forts of the Verdun Fortification District, situated in the commune of Fleury-devant-Douaumont...
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    (historically redout) is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks...
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    Martello tower (redirect from Martello Fort)
    Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from...
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    area around Fort van den Bosch (Ngawi), ca. 1845 Design sketch of Fort van den Bosch (earthenware defences), ca. 1845 Design sketch of Reduit (inner defences...
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    casemate was added by the Germans in 1942. Fort de la Fraternité Michel Dion (1996), Batteries, réduits, tours, forts, casemates... de Camaret et Roscanvel...
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    Fort de Rocher (sometimes called Fort de la Roche or Dovecote) was a seventeenth-century fortress on the Caribbean island of Tortuga, northwest of Haiti...
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    the oldest polygonal forts in the world. The most noticeable feature of the fort is the circular keep. This was modeled on the reduit de surete of the Lunette...
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  • Thumbnail for Fort du Salbert
    Fort du Salbert, also known as Fort Lefebvre, was built between 1874 and 1877. It was named after General François Joseph Lefebvre. It forms part of the...
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    least €10 million to recapitalise 8 November 2022 rci.fm - Air Belgium réduit la voilure vers la Caraïbe (French) 9 November 2022 aerotelegraph.com (German)...
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    The Fort des Ayvelles, also known as the Fort Dubois-Crancé, is a fortification near the French communes of Villers-Semeuse and Les Ayvelles in the Ardennes...
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  • 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 fort with bastions and surrounded...
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  • defend Antwerp. Antwerp was designated to be a national redoubt (French: Réduit national or Dutch: De versterkte stelling Antwerpen) in case Belgium was...
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    Pigeon Island, looking east towards Reduit Beach. To the left is the Landings Sandals Grande. Officer's Kitchen Fort Rodney Pigeon Island as seen from the...
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  • line of fortifications on the old Fort Suchet, which was already armed with two obsolete Mougin 155mm gun turrets. Fort Suchet was built between 1883 and...
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    Stelling van Amsterdam (category Forts in the Netherlands)
    Amsterdam would function as a national redoubt or reduit, as the last stronghold of the Netherlands. Forts were built in which roads, railways or dikes crossed...
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    Fort Bois d'Oye, also known as Fort Eblé, is located in the commune of Bermont. It was built between 1883 and 1886. It is part of the second ring of fortifications...
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