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Born July 16, 1714 • Angoulême • France
Died March 29, 1800 (aged 85) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study fortification
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Coehoorn, engraving by Pieter Schenk I
Menno, baron van Coehoorn
Dutch engineer
Henri-Alexis Brialmont
Belgian engineer
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
Gribeauval 12-pounder cannon
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
French officer and engineer
Jean-Victor Poncelet, detail of a lithograph by Patout, 1849.
Jean-Victor Poncelet
French mathematician
Henri-Gratien, Comte Bertrand
Henri-Gratien, Comte Bertrand
French engineer
Abraham de Fabert
marshal of France
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer
Bernard Forest de Belidor
French engineer
Charles Renard
French military engineer
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Polish general and statesman
Maurice, prince of Orange
Maurice
stadholder of The Netherlands
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal
Pedro Navarro, count de Olivetto
Spanish military engineer and general
Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin
Flemish mathematician
Meigs, Montgomery C.
Montgomery C. Meigs
American engineer and architect
John By: Rideau Canal
John By
British engineer
Sanmicheli, Michele: Palazzo Grimani
Michele Sanmicheli
Italian architect