Tag: Redan
Redan (a French word for “projection”, “salient”) is a term related to fortifications. It is a work in a V-shaped salient angle toward an expected attack. It can be made from earthworks or other material.
The redan developed from the lunette, originally a half-moon-shaped outwork; with shorter flanks it became a redan.
The Russians used redans on their left at the Battle of Borodino against Napoleon. A small redan whose faces make an obtuse angle with a vertex towards enemy is called flèche, an arrow in French. The Bagration flèches were three redans backwards in echelon. The Shevardino Redoubt (another redan) was erected as an early warning post a mile in front of the Bagration flèches.
A Redan hole or Redan is an aspect of golf course architecture commonly associated with golf architect Charles B. Macdonald. The term alludes to the “Redan” type of fortification. Specifically, a Redan hole has a green which slopes downward and away from the point of entrance, typically the front…
