Screen LibraryThe fortress in the age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 /
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| Main Authors: | |
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| Published: |
Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©1985 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge library editions. Military and naval history ;
volume 8 |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-310) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138924581 113892458X |
| Index Number: | UG443 |
| CLC: | E509 |
| Call Number: | E509/D858 |
| Contents: | Louis XIV and the apogee of the old fortress warfare 1660-1715 -- The masters : Coehoorn and Vauban -- The resolution of the conflict : the last struggles of Habsburg and Bourbon -- The age of Frederick the Great 1740-86 -- A time of doubt : the standing of permanent fortification in the eighteenth century -- The subjugation of Ireland and Scotland -- The battle for Sweden's Trans-Baltic bridgeheads -- The last crusade-the repulse of Ottoman Turkey -- 9. The collision of the colonial empires -- 10. Conclusions. |