The term redoubt is derived from Medieval Latin as a âsecret place,â although by the 18th century it was a word used to define a specific type of military structure used as part of larger fortifications. Redoubts were mostly built in North America throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
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An innovation in 'modern' architecture was the basic frame of steel, and I think there was one very early building using this in Belgium, part of the Art Nouveau Movement, and American skyscrapers following on, with those alarming films of builders swaying around without harnesses or any other safety equipment.