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Pages: 301
Authors: Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-21 - Publisher: McFarland

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A man of inventiveness, versatility and reformist ideas, Marshal Sebastien Le Preste de Vauban built a formidable ring of fortresses to protect France's nationa
Conserving the Enlightenment
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Pages: 562
Authors: Jānis Langins
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A study of French military engineers at a crucial point in the evolution of modern engineering.
The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Guy Rowlands
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men
Vauban Under Siege
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Jamel Ostwald
Categories: History
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"Vauban under Siege" is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality, contrasting military engineering's pursuit of th
French Fortifications, 1715-1815
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-21 - Publisher: McFarland

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This book describes and illustrates French fortifications from 1715 (the death of Louis XIV) to 1815 (the fall of Napoleon), focusing particularly on the Napole