The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660 1789 1st Edition by Christopher Duffy ISBN 113892458X 9781138924581

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ISBN 10: 113892458X 
ISBN 13: 9781138924581
Author: Christopher Duffy

The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660 1789 1st Table of contents:

One Louis XIV and the Apogee of the Old Fortress Warfare 1660–1715
Allegro marziale 1660–78
The personal rule of Louis XIV
The war with Spain 1667–8
The Dutch campaign of 1672
The continuation of the war in the Netherlands 1673–8
German military engineering
The war with the Empire, 1672–8
The French aggrandisements of the 1680s
Strasbourg 1681
Casale 1681
The Netherlands and Luxembourg 1683–4
The War of the League of Augsburg 1688–97
The Netherlands, the lower Rhine and the struggle for Namur
The war on the middle and upper Rhine
The war in Italy
The war in Catalonia
The War of the Spanish Succession 1701–14
The war in the Netherlands
The war in Germany
The war in Italy
The war in the Iberian peninsula
Two The Masters: Coehoorn and Vauban
Menno van Coehoorn 1641–1704
Career and character
The siege attack
The Dutch engineering corps
Coehoorn’s fortifications
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban 1633–1707
Career and character
Methods of work
The French engineering corps
The siege attack
The defence
Vauban’s fortifications
Entrenched camps
The national frontiers
Vauban’s influence and legacy
Three The Resolution of the Conflict: the Last Struggles of Habsburg and Bourbon
Hispania rediviva 1717–27
The Spanish military renaissance
The War of the Polish Succession 1733–5
The Rhine
Italy
The War of the Austrian Succession (western and central Europe) 1740–8
Italy
Germany and Bohemia
The Netherlands
The settlement of 1748
Four The Age of Frederick the Great 1740–86
First round: the Silesian Wars 1740–2 and 1744–5
The theatre
The First Silesian War 1740–2
The Second Silesian War 1744–5
Second round: The Seven Years War 1756–63
The Diplomatic Revolution
Western Germany
The Swedish and Russian campaigns
The Austrian campaigns
Third round: The War of the Bavarian Succession 1778–9
Frederician military engineering
Frederick and his engineers
The attack and the defence
Fortress design
The Frederician fortress system
The fortress in Frederick’s strategy
Peninsular postscripts
Five A Time of Doubt: the Standing of Permanent Fortification in the Eighteenth Century
The interpreters of Vauban
The first generation
The second generation
The crisis of permanent fortification
The external attack
The internal debate
Public affairs
The siege of Gibraltar 1779–83
Joseph II and the destruction of the Barrier 1781
The Prussian invasion of the United Provinces 1787
The coming of the Revolution in France
Six The Subjugation of Ireland and Scotland
The Williamite campaigns in Ireland 1689–91
The Jacobite rebellions in Scotland
The ‘15
The ’45
Seven The Battle for Sweden’s Trans-Baltic Bridgeheads
The first bid, the war of 1674–9
Northern military engineering in the middle and later seventeenth century
Denmark
The Swedish Vauban – Erik Dahlberg (1625–1703)
Russia turns to the West
The second bid, the Great Northern War 1700–21
1700, the busy year
1701–7, the indecisive years
The Poltava campaign 1708–9
The allied counter-attack 1709–15
1716–21, the fatal years
The eighteenth century
The contest for Finland 1741–3 and 1788–90
Swedish eighteenth-century engineering
The work of Tsar Peter and his successors
Eight Eight The Last Crusade – the Repulse of Ottoman Turkey
Venice and the defence of the water avenue
The contest for Candia
The winning and loss of the Morea
The defence of the Adriatic 1716–18
The Empire and the defence of the land avenue
Central Europe in danger 1663–83
The Western reconquest of Hungary 1684–1718
Turkey’s northern neighbours, Poland and Russia 1672–1711
The eighteenth century – Turkey on the defensive
The continuing struggle for Belgrade
The creation of Russian imperialism
Nadir Shah and the last great days of Persia
Nine The Collision of the Colonial Empires
India
The development of British amphibious striking power
North America
The Indian frontiers of New Spain
The new France and the new England – patterns of settlement
The North American crisis of the 1750s
The American Revolution 1775–83
The fight for the strategic footholds 1775–6 Boston.
The British offensives of 1777
The Hudson in later years
The British and Loyalist offensives in the South 1779–80
The loss of the American colonies 1781–2

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