I perked up when I read "Does Western Civ have a redoubt?" My great, great, great grandparents were settlers to New Zealand in the middle 19th century, and set up as farmers in the wilds south of Auckland. They built redoubts, and when Maori rose up to fight the settlers or raided farms, they retreated to the redoubts until things settled down. It's not a word I've heard used in the US.
I perked up when I read "Does Western Civ have a redoubt?" My great, great, great grandparents were settlers to New Zealand in the middle 19th century, and set up as farmers in the wilds south of Auckland. They built redoubts, and when Maori rose up to fight the settlers or raided farms, they retreated to the redoubts until things settled down. It's not a word I've heard used in the US.
I perked up when I read "Does Western Civ have a redoubt?" My great, great, great grandparents were settlers to New Zealand in the middle 19th century, and set up as farmers in the wilds south of Auckland. They built redoubts, and when Maori rose up to fight the settlers or raided farms, they retreated to the redoubts until things settled down. It's not a word I've heard used in the US.
I've known "redoubt" only from Caesar, de Bello Gallico.