Marshal Vauban and the defence of Louis XIV's France
2011
923.544 V354falk 2011
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Title
Marshal Vauban and the defence of Louis XIV's France
Published
Barnsley, [Eng.] : Pen & Sword Military, 2011.
Description
viii, 226 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
923.544 V354falk 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)708741471
Note
"Marshal Vauban was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex highly sophisticated fortress designs, his advanced theories for the defence and attack of fortified places, and his prolific work as a writer and radical thinker on military and social affairs mark him out as one of the most influential military minds of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries ... James Falkner ... follows his career as a soldier from a dashing and brave young cavalryman to his emergence as a masterful and innovative military engineer. Vauban's work in... designing, constructing and improving over 150 fortresses across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and northern Italy, along the Rhine and in the Pyrenees and on France's long coastline ... "--Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
Contents: Fence of iron -- Siege warfare -- A typical country squire -- The war of devolution -- War with the Dutch -- An end to glory -- Nine years war -- The long campaign -- The greatest of his services -- Engraved on the soil.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
Contents: Fence of iron -- Siege warfare -- A typical country squire -- The war of devolution -- War with the Dutch -- An end to glory -- Nine years war -- The long campaign -- The greatest of his services -- Engraved on the soil.
L2014M49
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