Sentence examples for redoubt about from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, one of the volcanoes currently causing geologists the most worry is Mt. Redoubt, about a hundred miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska.

He said he had asked a scouting party of tribal leaders to go to Tora Bora, a mountain redoubt about 35 miles southwest of here.

The fort itself, sited on the west bank of the Richelieu River, consisted of two earthen redoubts about 600 feet apart, surrounded by a ditch 7 feet wide and 8 feet deep that was lined with chevaux de frise.

Between the shore at the western end of the Bardawil Lagoon and Katib Gannit (the principal tactical point on the eastern slopes of the Romani heights), the infantry constructed a line of 12 redoubts about 750 yards apart, with a second series of redoubts covering the Romani railway station and the right of the defensive position which curved like a hook westward, then northward.

An industrial redoubt of about 300,000 people, it exploded onto the American consciousness in March 2004, when insurgents attacked a car carrying four contractors and a cheering mob dragged their charred bodies through the streets, stringing two of them up over a bridge straddling the Euphrates.

The United Nations, the United States and the Europeans dithered for an agonizingly long time and then — with the rebels' last redoubt, Benghazi, about to fall — acted with astonishing speed to endorse a robust mandate that goes far beyond a simple no-fly zone.

The walls of the redoubt were about 6 feet high, with a wooden platform inside on which men could stand and fire over the walls.

But Johns Hopkins, the nation's oldest university press, has ignored its Baltimore ZIP code and for the last three years has become an unlikely southern redoubt for books about New York.