Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 1633 – 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as...
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of France in 1703 François Louis Rousselet, Marquis of Château-Renault (1637–1716), Marshal of France in 1703 Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban...
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fortified by Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban, later Marquis de Vauban, King Louis XIV's military engineer. Port Vauban now serves as the home of the Yacht...
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troops of Louis XIV of France took the city after a lengthy and furious siege. Louis and his legendary military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban personally...
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engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and the town surrendered on 17 March; Spain formally ceded it to France under the August 1678 Treaty of Nijmegen...
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after Sébastien Le Prestre (1633–1707), Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban (and commonly referred to as Vauban), who was a Marshal of France...
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Maastricht was the first siege where the famous French engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban directed operations, rather than being a technical advisor....
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Bitche (redirect from Fortress of Bitsch)
population. The citadel, which had been constructed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban on the site of the old castle after the town's capture by the French...
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Toulon (redirect from History of Toulon)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert ordered Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban to build a new arsenal and to fortify the town. In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession...
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Louis renewed the siege of Luxembourg in April 1684, assisted by his technical expert on siege warfare, Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban. Its 2,500 defenders...
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Louis XIV (redirect from Le Roi Soleil)
both Protestant and Catholic, were in alliance against it. Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, France's leading military strategist, warned Louis in 1689...
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Badajoz bastioned enclosure (category Buildings and structures in the Province of Badajoz)
popularized by the French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre, better known as the Marquis de Vauban, as an extension of a previous defensive enclosure that...
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Le Prestre de Vauban. The defenders were commanded by Vaudémont but the town's isolated position meant they could only delay capture. The bulk of French...
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Chouannerie (category Military history of Brittany)
Anne Joseph Le Prestre de Vauban, the great-grandnephew of Marshal Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. However, disagreements between the general of the émigrés...
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the Duchy of Bar and other lands by the Treaty of Vincennes in 1661, Clermont remained with the Condé. In 1652, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban oversaw the...
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Besançon (redirect from Count of Besançon)
Fort Griffon) is the work of the military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. This group of buildings allows Besançon to appear on the UNESCO World...
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Polygonal fort (category Warfare of the late modern period)
century. The French engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban also devised an effective method to defeat them. Before Vauban, besiegers had driven a sap...
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French Royal Army (category Military history of France)
Netherlands. The famed engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban designed his intricate fortifications during Louis XIV's reign. Vauban, a genius at siege warfare...
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Condé was ceded to France by the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678. Fortifications expert Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban greatly improved the defenses on the east...
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engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban was ordered to improve its defenses. The five-sided citadel was constructed between 1668 and 1672 at a cost of 1,500...
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Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, by Vital-Dubray [fr] (copy); Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, by Gustave Crauck; Antoine Lavoisier, by Jacques-Léonard Maillet;...
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marshal of France, governor of Strasbourg. François-Louis de Rousselet, marquis de Châteaurenaut, vice-admiral and marshal of France. Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur...
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and was inspired by the designs of Louis XIV's commissary of fortifications Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban. [citation needed] It was a star-shaped...
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French Jesuit missionary active in China (b. 1654) March 30 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications...
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had lost the battle". French military engineer and strategist Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban argued Seneffe showed siege warfare was a better way to achieve...
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Richard Cantillon (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
the Younger, Charles Davenant, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and Jean Boisard. Cantillon's involvement in John Law's speculative...
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French Jesuit missionary active in China (b. 1654) March 30 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications...
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1 Walter Chetwynd, English antiquary, politician (d. 1693) Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications...
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