Vauban under Siege

Ostwald, Jamel

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“…4 There were 'two ways' to take the covered way, that calloused outer skin of Baroque fortification: sapping or storming. 5 .…”

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“…8 Critics of Vauban's methods, Allied and French, dismissed his 'precise balancing of casualties, delays and costs' and lauded 'vigour'. 9 This 'fundamental rift' between saving time and saving lives has also been represented as a conflict of codes between the macho 'heroism' of the warrior aristocrat and the 'technique' of the bourgeois engineer but it was not so simple. 10 The technical direction of sieges was often divided between the commander of the artillery and the engineer-in-chief in a quarrelsome relationship in which gunner officers tended to be more 'heroic' than their engineering counterparts.…”

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Namur Citadel, 1695: A Case Study in Allied Siege Tactics

Lenihan

2011

War in History

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The alternative to Vauban’s slow and relatively bloodless sapping — ‘efficiency’ — involved the ‘vigour’ of crude but quick attacks over open ground coupled with very heavy artillery fire. Sieges of Mainz, Bonn, and Namur town by members of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV were, however, neither ‘vigorous’ nor ‘efficient’. Coehoorn’s ‘new method’ at the siege of Namur citadel in 1695 was novel in the concentration of firepower against a small section of defences artfully chosen as part of an assault plan. Perceptions of his success were inflated: ultimately his plan proved too complex to put into practice, and ‘vigour’ took the citadel.

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“…4 There were 'two ways' to take the covered way, that calloused outer skin of Baroque fortification: sapping or storming. 5 .…”

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Namur Citadel, 1695: A Case Study in Allied Siege Tactics

Lenihan

2011

War in History

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“…"132 As if to push home Goulon's point, Ostwald describes the siege of Ath as "the epitome of Louisquatorzian siegecraft. "133 And while this is a beautiful turn of phrase (and quite a mouthful), it does not convey the beauty (if one can attest beauty to death and destruction) of Vauban's siege method. Vauban, as if describing his seizure of Ath, states, that "There is no fortress to which this method is not applicable.…”

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Vauban in the Wilderness: The MIlitary Revolution and the Seven Years' War in North America

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For the past thirty years there has been an ongoing debate regarding the nature of the Early Modern European Military Revolution. Much of this debate centers around whether the military and technological changes which are at the heart of the military revolution created the conditions for the bureaucratic systems of the modern nation state, or if those bureaucratic systems made possible the creation of larger, state sponsored armies and navies, as well as when these changes took place. Instead of focusing on what came first, the chicken or the egg, this thesis explores one aspect of the Military Revolution, focusing on the works of Sebastian le Prestre de Vauban who invented the socket bayonet, refined and systematized the practice of siege warfare, and emphasized the importance of the lives of his men. These changes are fundamental to understanding not only how wars were fought, but also how war affected those that fought them during this pivotal period of European history. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Siege Warfare (Early Modern)

Martens¹

2011

The Encyclopedia of War

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Early modern warfare was dominated by sieges rather than battles. Sieges were far more numerous and more decisive for the outcome of a war, and many of the major battles were actually fought between a besieging army and a relief force, as at Pavia (1525), St. Quentin (1557), Mezokeresztes (1596), Nördlingen (1634), Rocroi (1643), and Vienna (1683). Moreover a failed siege could prove just as destructive to the beleaguering army as a lost battle, and equally damaging to princely prestige; witness the ruinous defeats of the Emperor Charles V's troops before Metz (1552), the Ottomans at Malta (1565), or the French royal army at La Rochelle (1573).

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Vauban under Siege

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Namur Citadel, 1695: A Case Study in Allied Siege Tactics

Namur Citadel, 1695: A Case Study in Allied Siege Tactics

Vauban in the Wilderness: The MIlitary Revolution and the Seven Years' War in North America

Siege Warfare (Early Modern)

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