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Vauban

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Vau·ban  (v-bä), Marquis Sébastien Le Prestre de 1633-1707.
French military engineer who revolutionized fortification and siege strategies during the reign of Louis XIV.
Vauban (French) [vobɑ̃]
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(Biographies / Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de (1633-1707) M, French, TECHNOLOGY: engineer, MILITARY: general) Sébastien Le Prestre de (sebastjɛ̃ lə prɛtrə də). 1633-1707, French military engineer and marshal, who greatly developed the science of fortification and devised novel siege tactics using a series of parallel trenches


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This must have been the device of some Vauban or Cohorn of those early times.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
The beauty and manliness of warfare has been much deformed, Major Heyward, by the arts of your Monsieur Vauban.
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