The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 Contributor(s): Duffy, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138924644 ISBN-13: 9781138924642 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - History | Military - Strategy - History | Modern - 17th Century |
Dewey: 355.709 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.4" W x 9.6" (1.49 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |