THE ART OF THE SIEGE
Oct 31, 2019
3 minutes
“VAUBAN WAS AN EXPERT AT BOTH CONSTRUCTING DEFENSIVE WORKS AND CRACKING THEM. HIS PRESENCE IN THE FRENCH ARMY DURING THE FRANCO-DUTCH WAR WAS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE, AS A SUCCESSION OF SIEGES HAD BECOME THE PRIMARY MEANS OF WAGING WAR”
Whether or not a ‘military revolution’ was underway during the Franco-Dutch War, there is certainly no doubt that warfare was changing dramatically at that time.
Medieval methods were slowly giving way to the modern, and for
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