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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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REDAN , in fortification, a See also:

WORK

work of V-shape presenting a salient See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle towards the expected attack. The See also:

GORGE

gorge (See also:

REAR

rear) of a redan is open. When unsupported by other See also:

WORKS

works, it has the disadvantage that its See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire is divergent and but few guns can be brought to See also:

bear directly towards the front. Further, both its faces are usually open to See also:

ENFILADE (a French word, from enfiler, to thread, and so to pass through from end to end)

enfilade. Redans were therefore almost always used in See also:

CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with other works, one of the most See also:

COMMON

common forms being the " lines of redans " used as See also:

field works. These consisted of lengths of See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain trenches facing the front, with redans at intervals along the See also:

LINE

line. In the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

day the See also:

TERM

term redan is loosely applied to works merely possessing saliency, as in the See also:

case of the celebrated bastions Nos. 3 and 2 at See also:

SEVASTOPOL, or SEBASTOPOL

Sevastopol in 1854–55, usually called the "Redan " and " Little Redan " respectively (see See also:

CRIMEAN

CRIMEAN See also:

WAR). The " Redan " was a large work of irregular outline, generally resembling a redan, but having the salient angle blunted or rounded off and the See also:

side faces broken into several See also:

minor fronts so as to obtain a field of fire in many directions.

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