17th-century military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and a translation of de Vauban's work. Rothrock was born on November 11, 1932 in Wilmington...

Le Prestre de Vauban, Louis XIV's military engineer. In 1698 he designed a new enclosure and work began in 1699-1700. Several of Vauban's fortifications...

Scheldt at Ename to protect his kingdom against possible attacks from Francia (next to the other frontier post at Valenciennes, later in also the Margraviate...

was divided between Louis' three sons, into East Francia, Middle Francia and West Francia. West Francia approximated the area occupied by modern France...

was later visited by the French military engineer Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban and was rated exemplary. After the ducal family line was extinguished in...

sons by the Treaty of Verdun of 843. The middle realm, known as Middle Francia, went to Lothair I, reaching from Frisia in Northern Germany through the...

of East Francia and West Francia. In 869, Charles the Bald was crowned king of Lotharingia in Metz. In 910, Metz became part of East Francia and subsequently...

area west of the Scheldt. In 862, Charles the Bald, first king of Western Francia and still to become Holy Roman Emperor, would make Tournai the seat of...

Luxembourgish territory became successively part of the Kingdom of Middle Francia (843–855), the Kingdom of Lotharingia (855–959) and finally of the Duchy...

tribes in North Africa, Christian kingdoms from the north, West Francia, East Francia, and the Byzantine Empire. Abd al-Rahman III also brought the Christian...

defences of the fortress were strengthened by the famous siege engineer Vauban. The French king's great-grandson Louis (1710–74) was, from 1712, the first...

Fleurus and Landen, among others. Vauban 1633–1707 French Arguably the greatest military engineer of all time, Vauban restructured the French defensive...

Algérie, Colbert, Dupleix, and Foch. The Aigle class destroyers, Albatros, Vauban, Vautour, Guépard, Lion, Valmy, Verdun, Tartu, Chevalier Paul, and Cassard...

City annexed by Louis XIV of France. 1684 – Citadel built. 1690 – Barrage Vauban opened. 1697 – French annexation recognised by the Holy Roman Empire. 1701...

Franks took control of Gaul by defeating competing tribes. The "land of Francia", from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings...

from the western part of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, known as West Francia, and achieved increasing prominence under the rule of the House of Capet...

months against superior forces. Vázquez, Alonso: Los sucesos de Flandes y Francia del tiempo de Alejandro Farnesio ((in English): The succession of Flanders...

with the outside world. This included communication with the town, Porta Francia, and the Pass. The fort was never properly outfitted for war and was used...

largest being New France in North America. France originated as West Francia (Francia Occidentalis), the western half of the Carolingian Empire, with the...

Lille becomes part of France. Town fortified by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. 1670 - Citadel constructed. 1675 - St. Madeleine Church, Lille [fr] construction...

Netherlands. This simultaneously increased the French defensive power, as Vauban immediately set about expanding the conquered cities into strong fortifications...

constructed a harbour with wooden wharves. 1680/88 - Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban fortified the harbour. 1694 - (18 June) Battle of Camaret, an English squadron...

felled for the French fortification of Freiburg by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. Allegedly oak logs worth 20,000 guilders were taken. The vintage of 1678...