Vauban is well known (I would have thought) as the foremost military
engineer of Louis XIV. He is notable for geometric type forts which were
copied by later military engineers but perhaps with more emphasis on the
geometry rather than the subtlety of the terrain analysis that accompanied
Vauban’s work.

 

A good introduction that puts Vauban’s work into context is Annals of a
Fortress by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc (which I have a copy of somewhere, le Duc
was and architectural historian and the inventor of gothic).

 

The interesting question is that of Vauban’s influence in North America –
isn’t the fortress at Louisbourg supposedly one of his designs?

 

Ours in Australia were less geometric being built much later.

 

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