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    Menno, Baron van Coehoorn ([ˈmɛnoː vɑŋ ˈkuɦoːr(ə)n]; March 1641 – 17 March 1704) was a Dutch States Army officer and engineer, regarded as one of the most...
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  • Dutch speed skater Menno ter Braak (1902–1940), Dutch writer Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1704), Dutch soldier and engineer Menno van Gorp (born 1989), Dutch...
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    lightweight mortar originally designed by Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn. Van Coehoorn came to prominence during the 1688–1697 Nine Years War, whose...
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    build the new fortifications. The late-seventeenth-century architects Menno van Coehoorn and especially Vauban, Louis XIV's military engineer, are considered...
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    Elector of Brandenburg who, aided by the celebrated Dutch engineer Menno van Coehoorn, besieged Kaiserswerth. Kaiserswerth fell on 26 June before the Elector...
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    targeting multiple targets. His Dutch rival Menno van Coehoorn employed a similar approach. While the 'Van Coehoorn method' sought to overwhelm defences with...
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  • mortar as a coehorn, and attributes its invention to a Dutch engineer, Menno Van Coehoorn, who lived from 1641 to 1704. Between 1672 and 1740, the Royal Foundry...
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    engineers, the French Marshal Vauban and the Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn, developed modern fortification to its pinnacle, refining siege warfare...
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    town's surrender on 5 June, but the citadel, staunchly defended by Menno van Coehoorn, managed to hold on until 30 June before capitulating, bringing an...
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    under Franz Lefort, the tsar's advisor in maritime affairs; engineer Menno van Coehoorn refused. Peter put his knowledge of shipbuilding to use in helping...
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    place during the Nine Years' War on 16 March 1696. A Dutch army under Menno van Coehoorn and the Earl of Athlone closed in on the French town of Givet with...
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  • YPR-765 PRAT) 47th Pantserinfanterie Battalion "Regiment Infanterie Menno van Coehoorn", Darp, (YPR-765, YPR-765 PRAT) 43rd Field Artillery Battalion, Darp...
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    has been rebuilt several times. Its current form was designed by Menno van Coehoorn, and improved upon by Vauban after the siege of 1692. It has been...
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    'De militie van den staat': Het leger van de republiek der verenigde Nederlanden. Uitgeverij de Bataafsche Leeuw. ISBN 9789068810202. van Nimwegen, Olaf...
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    drew their name. An early transportable mortar was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn in 1701. This mortar fired an exploding shell, which had a fuse that...
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    the rivers Sambre and Meuse. In 1692, the Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn made the Citadel one of the strongest defensive points in Flanders...
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    became clear to William III he sent the Duke of Holstein Plön and Menno van Coehoorn with an army to take the city of Huy. 5 days later on 27 September...
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    engine Mozi Gundulf of Rochester Henri Alexis Brialmont John Chard Menno van Coehoorn Pierre Charles L'Enfant Giovanni Fontana Leslie Groves Cyril Gordon...
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  • Master-general of Artillery of the Dutch States Army (the successor of Menno van Coehoorn in that function). He distinguished himself at the attempted passage...
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  • meteorologist Ludolph van Ceulen (1540–1610), mathematician Carolus Clusius (1526–1609), doctor and botanist Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1704), military...
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    the Allied method was one of "massive bombardment" in the style of Menno van Coehoorn. On 28 September, Joseph, King of the Romans, arrived and took nominal...
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    high-ranking Dutch generals. Ernst Wilhelm von Salisch, Daniël van Dopff and Menno van Coehoorn threatened to resign or go into the service of other countries...
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  • anatomist Regnier de Graaf (1641–1673), Dutch physician and anatomist Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1704), Dutch military engineer Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), French...
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    times. The most significant siege was that of 1702, carried on by Menno van Coehoorn. Consequently, Venlo was incorporated into the Generaliteitslanden...
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  • 1680 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French author (b. 1613) 1704 – Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch soldier and engineer (b. 1641) 1715 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish...
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    waterlinie "Home". hollandsewaterlinie.nl. "Stichting Menno van Coehoorn - C.R.T. Krayenhoff en de genese van de NHW". Archived from the original on 2014-02-03...
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  • Splinter Cell, Net Force Carl von Clausewitz – military theorist, On War Menno van Coehoorn John Colomb Julian Corbett – Edwardian British Naval theorist, Some...
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  • Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams, with plates by Gerard de Lairesse. Menno van Coehoorn publishes his principal treatise on fortification, Nieuwe Vestingbouw...
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    death. (In Wijckel he bought Meerenstein [fy] which was built for Menno van Coehoorn.) Patras died early and probably hardly lived in his new house on...
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  • Massachusetts General Court for a new saltmaking process. March – Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (died 1704) July 30 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch...
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