Redoubt Collection

Battle of the Wilderness, Civil War, 1864
Confederates capturing Union breastworks during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, 1864. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

WW1 - Trench map from a soldiers war diary showing the Somme Battlefield with information gleaned from captured German Prisoners

EVRV2A-00163
William Prescott in command of American Minutemen defending Bunker Hill, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century F.C. Yohn illustration

Hohenzollern Redoubt 1915
Wounded soldiers returning to a Dressing Station through Vermelles during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on the Western Front in France during World War I on 13th October 1915

Sebastopol, Crimean War
Interior of the Malakoff Tower, the most important of the Russian defences, taken by the French on 8 September

Plan of the Passage of the Ingour, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Plan of the Passage of the Ingour, 1856. Crimean War: map showing...the ground on which Omer Pacha's late victory took place [and] the strategy by which he succeeded in forcing the passage of a

The Siege of Sebastopol - Interior of the Redan - from a photograph by Robertson, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - Interior of the Redan - from a photograph by Robertson, 1856. Crimean War. The Redan is a portion of a line of natural mounds

La Bataille de la Somme; Dans les ruines de Biaches, 1916. Creator: Unknown
La Bataille de la Somme; Dans les ruines de Biaches: au centre, derriere le poteau du telegraphe, une petite chapelle dont les Allemands avaient fait un reduit puissamment fortifie, 1916

The Siege of Sebastopol - portion of redoubt, occupied and evacuated by the Russians, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - portion of redoubt, occupied and evacuated by the Russians, 1854. Crimean War. As our cavalry moved on, supported by our artillery

A Raised Alarm in the Redoubt of the Fortress, 19th century. Creator: Nikolay Nikolaevich Karazin
A Raised Alarm in the Redoubt of the Fortress, 19th century. One of 21 watercolors (out of an original 27) from an album relating to the history of the Siberian Cossacks held by the Rare Books

WWII September 1939 Circular sandbag redoubt
Anti-aircraft post on the East Coast constructed of sandbags, formed in the first week of the Second World War. Date: 1939

The Redoubt 33210_020
The Redoubt, Eastbourne, East Sussex, 2016

Redoubt Music Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Discarded Confederate mortar at abandoned Fort Johnson, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1865 (b / w photo)
867775 Discarded Confederate mortar at abandoned Fort Johnson, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1865 (b/w photo) by American Photographer

The English turn in flight after the death of King Harold, Bayeux Tapestry (wool embroidery on linen)
XIR183151 The English turn in flight after the death of King Harold, Bayeux Tapestry (wool embroidery on linen) by Unknown Artist, (11th century); Musee de la Tapisserie, Bayeux

Fletchers Defence of the Redoubt at Tanjore, c1891. Creator: James Grant
Fletchers Defence of the Redoubt at Tanjore, c1891. From " Cassells Illustrated History of India Vol. I.", by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York]

Welsh - Caesars Nose - CWGC Cemetery
This small cemetery stands on the site of a German redoubt which was called Fortin 17. Fighting around this area began in 1915

The French Redoubt at Inkermann, 1855. Creator: Roger Fenton
The French Redoubt at Inkermann, 1855. A work made of salted paper print, plate 3 from the album " photographs taken in the crimea" (1856)

The Mamelon and Malakoff, from the Mortar Battery, 1855. Creator: Roger Fenton
The Mamelon and Malakoff, from the Mortar Battery, 1855. A work made of salted paper print, from the album " photographic pictures of the seat of war in the crimea" (1856)

The Guards Redoubt, Inkermann, 1855. Creator: Roger Fenton
The Guards Redoubt, Inkermann, 1855. A work made of salted paper print, from the album " photographic pictures of the seat of war in the crimea" (1856)

The defence of Breeds House: Prescott in the redoubt
3786185 The defence of Breeds House: Prescott in the redoubt, illustration from Cassells History of the United States published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin

The Expedition to Upper Burmah, the 2nd and 11th Bengal Light Infantry storming the Redoubt of Minhla (engraving)
1623089 The Expedition to Upper Burmah, the 2nd and 11th Bengal Light Infantry storming the Redoubt of Minhla (engraving) by Prior

"Fort Curtis, "a New Fort just built on the Ekowe Flats, Zululand (engraving)
1061405 " Fort Curtis, " a New Fort just built on the Ekowe Flats, Zululand (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: " Fort Curtis)

Confederate 32-pounder gun captured outside Yorktown, Virginia, c. July 1862 (b / w photo)
869214 Confederate 32-pounder gun captured outside Yorktown, Virginia, c. July 1862 (b/w photo) by Barnard, George N. (1819-1902); Private Collection; (add.info)

Quebec, 1740 (engraving)
3058238 Quebec, 1740 (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Defence of Washington, Fort Totten, 1861-65 (b / w photo)
STC354378 Defence of Washington, Fort Totten, 1861-65 (b/w photo) by Brady, Mathew (1823-96) & studio; Private Collection; (add.info.: American Civil War; ); The Stapleton Collection; American

Union mortars in Battery Weed on Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863 (b / w photo)
869216 Union mortars in Battery Weed on Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863 (b/w photo) by Hs and Peale (fl.1839-57); Private Collection; (add.info)

New York artillerymen with a heavy gun in Fort Corcoran, spring 1862 (b / w photo)
869215 New York artillerymen with a heavy gun in Fort Corcoran, spring 1862 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Colonel Tyler and the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery at Fort Richardson
869207 Colonel Tyler and the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery at Fort Richardson, late 1861 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bearded Col. Robert O)

The Mantlets, 1855 (b / w photo)
701529 The Mantlets, 1855 (b/w photo) by Robertson, James (1813-88); Private Collection; (add.info.: The ruins of the Barrack Battery, one of the six main redoubts which defended Sevastopol)

Capture of a Redoubt at Yorktown (litho)
3643795 Capture of a Redoubt at Yorktown (litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Capture of a Redoubt at Yorktown)

Russo-Turkish War (engraving)
1590154 Russo-Turkish War (engraving) by Robinson, Charles (1840-81); Private Collection; (add.info.: Russo-Turkish War. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1878)

The Royal Engineers at Aldershot, the Bridging Battalion at Work (litho)
1598883 The Royal Engineers at Aldershot, the Bridging Battalion at Work (litho) by Holland Tringham, Joseph (1861-1908); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Royal Engineers at Aldershot)

Franco-Prussian War (engraving)
1104643 Franco-Prussian War (engraving) by Read, Samuel (1816-83); Private Collection; (add.info.: Franco-Prussian War. Illustration for The Illustrated London News)

The Expedition to Upper Burma, up the Irrawaddy (engraving)
1061757 The Expedition to Upper Burma, up the Irrawaddy (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Expedition to Upper Burma, up the Irrawaddy)

The Battle-Field of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt (engraving)
1596558 The Battle-Field of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Battle-Field of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt)

View eastward from abandoned Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
867773 View eastward from abandoned Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, April 1865 (b/w photo) by American Photographer

Officers posing with a heavy gun outside Washington, D. C. ca. 1862 (b / w photo)
869213 Officers posing with a heavy gun outside Washington, D. C. ca. 1862 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Highlanders in possession of Egyptian redoubt (colour litho)
2795260 Highlanders in possession of Egyptian redoubt (colour litho) by Simkin, Richard (1840-1926) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Highlanders in possession of Egyptian redoubt)

The defence of Breeds Hill: Prescott in the Redoubt (engraving)
654841 The defence of Breeds Hill: Prescott in the Redoubt (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The defence of Breeds Hill: Prescott in the Redoubt)

The 2nd Dorsets at Kut-el-Amara, attacking the Turkish Redoubts (lithO)
STC410961 The 2nd Dorsets at Kut-el-Amara, attacking the Turkish Redoubts (lithO) by Clark, Christopher (1875-1942) (after); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

The War, after an Assault on the Redoubt at Plevna (engraving)
1589695 The War, after an Assault on the Redoubt at Plevna (engraving) by Woodville, Richard Caton II (1856-1927) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The War)

The War, the Gravitza Redoubt, and Right Wing of the Turkish Position at Plevna (engraving)
1589828 The War, the Gravitza Redoubt, and Right Wing of the Turkish Position at Plevna (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The War, the Gravitza Redoubt)

Sketches of the War in Armenia (engraving)
1589774 Sketches of the War in Armenia (engraving) by Robinson, Charles (1840-81); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sketches of the War in Armenia)

The Zulu War, Battle of Kambula Hill, 29 March (engraving)
1106759 The Zulu War, Battle of Kambula Hill, 29 March (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Zulu War, Battle of Kambula Hill, 29 March)

The Recent Revolt in the Transvaal (engraving)
1037760 The Recent Revolt in the Transvaal (engraving) by Fripp, Charles Edwin (1854-1906); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Recent Revolt in the Transvaal)

The War in the Soudan, with Sir Gerald Graham at Suakim (engraving)
1044993 The War in the Soudan, with Sir Gerald Graham at Suakim (engraving) by Fripp, Charles Edwin (1854-1906); Private Collection; (add.info.: The War in the Soudan)

The Russians leaving San Stefano, Last Look at Constantinople (engraving)
1060091 The Russians leaving San Stefano, Last Look at Constantinople (engraving) by Villiers, Frederic (1851-1922) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Russians leaving San Stefano)

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"Redoubt: A Symbol of Resilience and Defiance Across History" From the Battle of the Wilderness during the Civil War in 1864 to the Hohenzollern Redoubt in World War I, redoubts have played a significant role in warfare throughout history. These fortified structures served as strategic strongholds, offering protection and resistance against enemy forces. In the Crimean War's Siege of Sebastopol, a redoubt stood tall amidst chaos and destruction. Its sturdy walls became a symbol of resilience for those defending their homeland. Similarly, soldiers fighting on the Somme Battlefield in World War I relied on trench maps that highlighted crucial redoubts like Hohenzollern to navigate through treacherous terrains. Beyond military significance, redoubts have also left their mark on cultural landscapes. The Redoubt Music Gardens in Eastbourne, East Sussex stands today as an enchanting venue where melodies fill the air and memories are made. During WWII's early days in September 1939, circular sandbag redoubts dotted coastlines as defensive measures against potential invasions. These humble yet vital structures represented determination and preparedness during uncertain times. Even after conflicts ended, remnants remained to tell stories of valor and sacrifice. In Charleston Harbor's abandoned Fort Johnson lay a discarded Confederate mortar from 1865—a poignant reminder of battles fought long ago. The Bayeux Tapestry captures another historical moment when English soldiers turned away from battle upon King Harold's death. Amongst its intricate wool embroidery lies evidence of a formidable redoubt that once guarded these lands with unwavering loyalty. Artistic depictions further immortalize these fortifications' significance; James Grant's painting "Fletcher's Defence of the Redoubt at Tanjore" showcases bravery amid conflict during c1891—an homage to those who valiantly defended their positions.