Definition of "fortlet" []

• A little fort. (noun)

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• ""But however fast we travel, Major, they will still outrun us and so give warning to this fortlet at San Miguel, " Herault tapped the map, -and the fort's garrison will send to Salamanca for reinforcements, and we shall arrive and find a small army waiting for us."
• ""But however fast we travel, Major, they will still outrun us and so give warning to this fortlet at San Miguel," Herault tapped the map, "and the fort's garrison will send to Salamanca for reinforcements, and we shall arrive and find a small army waiting for us.""
• "Just inside there is a still unshattered concrete fortlet, built for the machine gun by which those men were killed."