Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789
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artillery fortification strategies
attacks
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Bastion Tower
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Charles III
Circuitous
colonial military history
De Lauzun
De Vauban
Detached Forts
duke
dynastic conflicts
early modern Europe
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formal
Formal Siege
Fortress Warfare
Girl Friend
Grand Vizier
Le Peletier
Le Quesnoy
Lengthy Business
lery
Main Fortress
Menno Van Coehoorn
military engineering
MS Plan
Ottoman campaigns
Permanent Fortification
perth
Prussian Fortresses
Scarecrow
siege
Siege Attack
siege warfare
South Western Alps
towers
Vauban
Victor Amadeus
War Fare
warfare
William III
Product details
- ISBN 9781138924581
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been acclaimed as the classic period of artillery fortification. This was an era when fortresses and fortress systems shaped the calculations of strategists and statesmen, and often dictated the course of campaigns. The age was one of almost constant conflict and this book, originally published in 1985, explores the influence of the fortress in the dynastic wars of Bourbon, Habsburg and Hohenzollern, the contest for influence in the Baltic, the last crusades of the West against the Turks, and in the peculiar conditions of colonial campaigning and the War of the American Independence.
