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  • For instance, the 5-sided fort is a classic of military design called the Vauban Plan, after the French military engineer who popularized it in the 1600s.

    Back to the Books Fresca 2010

  • Brailmont, who was the successor of other eminent military Belgian engineers, such as Vauban, who had taught the art of fortification to

    "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

  • The greatest military engineer in history was a Frenchman, Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban 1632–1707.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • » Vauban, a suburb of two wheels • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape

    » Vauban, a suburb of two wheels • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape 2009

  • The greatest military engineer in history was a Frenchman, Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban 1632–1707.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • We then raced through various other random Vs – Vichy, Verdun, Vauban and Vaudémont – though not before going off piste into the Ns for Nancy, the Ms for the Mistral font, the Ls for Lorraine, the As for Alsace and the Ts for Les Trentes Glorieuses.

    TV review: The Crusades | Jonathan Meades on France 2012

  • Three mornings a week I'd take the number 83 bus to the Vieux Port, where I'd then transfer to another bus that took me up the Vauban to the atelier of Tiennick Kerevel, where I had private lessons d'aquarelle.

    rencontre - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Zero-carbon communities have been around for years — for example, the car-free neighborhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany, which was built in the mid-'90s and is characterized by rows of so-called "Passivhauses."

    The Green, Green Luxury of Home Tara Loader Wilkinson 2011

  • The greatest military engineer in history was a Frenchman, Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban 1632–1707.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • The greatest military engineer in history was a Frenchman, Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban 1632–1707.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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